Judges 6:32

6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, ¹  because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

Judges 13:10

13:10 The woman ran at once and told her husband, ²  “Come quickly, ³  the man who visited ⁴  me the other day has appeared to me!”

Judges 19:5

19:5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. ⁵  But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy, ⁶  then you can go.”

Judges 19:8

19:8 He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy. ⁷  Wait until later in the day to leave!” ⁸  So they ate a meal together.

Judges 20:21-22

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ⁹ 

20:22 The Israelite army ¹⁰  took heart ¹¹  and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

Judges 20:30

20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ¹²  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

Judges 20:46

20:46 That day twenty-five thousand ¹³  sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors. ¹⁴ 

[6:32]  ¹ tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”

[13:10]  ² tn Heb “and said to him.” This phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons.

[13:10]  ³ tn Heb “Look.”

[13:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “came to.”

[19:5]  ³ tn Heb “and he arose to go.”

[19:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”

[19:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “Sustain your heart.” He is once more inviting him to stay for a meal.

[19:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “Wait until the declining of the day.”

[20:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “The people, the men of Israel.”

[20:22]  ⁷ tn Or “encouraged one another.”

[20:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “the third day.”

[20:46]  ⁸ sn The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44-46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 429) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44-47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.

[20:46]  ⁹ tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.