Judges 7:14

7:14 The other man said, ¹  “Without a doubt this symbolizes ²  the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”

Judges 9:15

9:15 The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose ³  me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! ⁴  Otherwise ⁵  may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’

Judges 9:20

9:20 But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!”

Judges 11:34

11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ⁶  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ⁷  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

Judges 16:15

16:15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ⁸  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

Judges 18:1

The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance

18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place ⁹  to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. ¹⁰ 

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ¹¹  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ¹²  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ¹³  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ¹⁴  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ¹⁵ 

Judges 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ¹⁶  you will encounter ¹⁷  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ¹⁸  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ¹⁹ 

Judges 18:28

18:28 No one came to the rescue because the city ²⁰  was far from Sidon ²¹  and they had no dealings with anyone. ²²  The city ²³  was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites ²⁴  rebuilt the city and occupied it.

Judges 19:1

Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited

19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite ²⁵  living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine ²⁶  from Bethlehem ²⁷  in Judah.

Judges 19:19

19:19 We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, ²⁸  and the young man who is with your servants. ²⁹  We lack nothing.”

[7:14]  ¹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[7:14]  ² tn Heb “This can be nothing but.”

[9:15]  ³ tn Heb “are about to anoint [with oil].”

[9:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “in my shade.”

[9:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “If not.”

[11:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”

[11:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”

[16:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”

[18:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “an inheritance.”

[18:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”

[18:7]  ¹¹ tn Or “went.”

[18:7]  ¹² tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

[18:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

[18:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

[18:7]  ¹⁵ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.

[18:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

[18:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[18:28]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.”

[18:28]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “They”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”

[19:1]  ¹⁸ sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.

[19:1]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:19]  ¹⁹ tn By calling his concubine the old man’s “female servant,” the Levite emphasizes their dependence on him for shelter.

[19:19]  ²⁰ tc Some Hebrew mss and ancient witnesses read the singular, “your servant,” which would refer to the Levite. If one retains the plural, then both the Levite and his wife are in view. In either case the pronominal suffix emphasizes their dependence on the old man for shelter.