Judges 6:36

6:36 Gideon said to God, “If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, ¹  as you promised, then give me a sign as proof. ² 

Judges 6:40

6:40 That night God did as he asked. ³  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Judges 8:34

8:34 The Israelites did not remain true ⁴  to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

Judges 9:23

9:23 God sent a spirit to stir up hostility ⁵  between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal ⁶  to Abimelech.

Judges 9:56

9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ⁷ 

Judges 18:31

18:31 They worshiped ⁸  Micah’s carved image ⁹  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ¹⁰  was in Shiloh.

[6:36]  ¹ tn More literally, “you are about to deliver Israel by my hand.”

[6:36]  ² tn The words “then give me a sign as proof” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:40]  ³ tn Heb “God did so that night.”

[8:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “remember.”

[9:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “an evil spirit.” A nonphysical, spirit being is in view, like the one who volunteered to deceive Ahab (1 Kgs 22:21). The traditional translation, “evil spirit,” implies the being is inherently wicked, perhaps even demonic, but this is not necessarily the case. The Hebrew adjective רָעַה (ra’ah) can have a nonethical sense, “harmful; dangerous; calamitous.” When modifying רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) it may simply indicate that the being in view causes harm to the object of God’s judgment. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 253) here refers to a “mischief-making spirit.”

[9:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “The leaders of Shechem were disloyal.” The words “he made” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:56]  ⁹ tn Heb “seventy brothers.”

[18:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

[18:31]  ¹² tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

[18:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “the house of God.”