Judges 6:6-7

6:6 Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.

6:7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of Midian,

Judges 6:34

6:34 The Lord’s spirit took control of ¹  Gideon. He blew a trumpet, ²  summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. ³ 

Judges 10:14

10:14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” ⁴ 

Judges 18:23

18:23 When they called out to the Danites, the Danites ⁵  turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

Judges 4:10

4:10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; ⁶  Deborah went up with him as well.

Judges 6:35

6:35 He sent messengers throughout Manasseh and summoned them to follow him as well. ⁷  He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him.

Judges 10:10

10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped ⁸  the Baals.”

Judges 12:2

12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. ⁹  I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. ¹⁰ 

Judges 18:22

18:22 After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors ¹¹  gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Judges 3:9

3:9 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ¹²  raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued ¹³  them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. ¹⁴ 

Judges 3:15

3:15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ¹⁵  raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. ¹⁶  The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment. ¹⁷ 

Judges 4:13

4:13 he ¹⁸  ordered ¹⁹  all his chariotry – nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels – and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.

[6:34]  ¹ tn Heb “clothed.”

[6:34]  ² tn That is, “mustered an army.”

[6:34]  ³ tn Heb “Abiezer was summoned after him.”

[10:14]  ¹ tn Heb “in your time of trouble.”

[18:23]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “went up at his feet.”

[6:35]  ¹ tn Heb “and he also was summoned after him.”

[10:10]  ¹ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

[12:2]  ¹ tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”

[12:2]  ² tn Heb “hand.”

[18:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house.”

[3:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord.”

[3:9]  ² tn Or “delivered.”

[3:9]  ³ tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel is Caleb’s nephew).

[3:15]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” This has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:15]  ² tn The phrase, which refers to Ehud, literally reads “bound/restricted in the right hand,” apparently a Hebrew idiom for a left-handed person. See Judg 20:16, where 700 Benjaminites are described in this way. Perhaps the Benjaminites purposely trained several of their young men to be left-handed warriors by restricting the use of the right hand from an early age so the left hand would become dominant. Left-handed men would have a distinct military advantage, especially when attacking city gates. See B. Halpern, “The Assassination of Eglon: The First Locked-Room Murder Mystery,” BRev 4 (1988): 35.

[3:15]  ³ tn Heb “The Israelites sent by his hand an offering to Eglon, king of Moab.”

[4:13]  ¹ tn Heb “Sisera.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[4:13]  ² tn Or “summoned.”