Judges 7:3

7:3 Now, announce to the men, ¹  ‘Whoever is shaking with fear ²  may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.’” ³  Twenty-two thousand men ⁴  went home; ⁵  ten thousand remained.

Judges 9:28

9:28 Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? ⁶  Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech? ⁷ 

Judges 9:38

9:38 Zebul said to him, “Where now are your bragging words, ⁸  ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men ⁹  you insulted? ¹⁰  Go out now and fight them!”

Judges 10:18

10:18 The leaders ¹¹  of Gilead said to one another, “Who is willing to lead the charge ¹²  against the Ammonites? He will become the leader of all who live in Gilead!”

Judges 15:6

15:6 The Philistines asked, ¹³  “Who did this?” They were told, ¹⁴  “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite ¹⁵  took Samson’s ¹⁶  bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father. ¹⁷ 

Judges 18:3

18:3 As they approached ¹⁸  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ¹⁹  of the young Levite. So they stopped ²⁰  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ²¹ 

Judges 20:18

20:18 The Israelites went up to Bethel ²²  and asked God, ²³  “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” ²⁴  The Lord said, “Judah should lead.”

Judges 21:5

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ²⁵ 

Judges 21:8

21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ²⁶ 

[7:3]  ¹ tn Heb “call into the ears of the people.”

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “afraid and shaking.”

[7:3]  ³ tc Many interpreters reject the MT reading “and leave Mount Gilead” for geographical reasons. A possible alternative, involving rather radical emendation of the Hebrew text, would be, “So Gideon tested them” (i.e., thinned the ranks in this manner).

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because warriors are in view, and in ancient Israelite culture these would be only males. (This is also the case in vv. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.)

[7:3]  ⁵ tn Or “turned around, back.”

[9:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “and Zebul his appointee.”

[9:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abimelech) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:38]  ¹¹ tn Heb “is your mouth that says.”

[9:38]  ¹² tn Heb “the people.”

[9:38]  ¹³ tn Or “despised.”

[10:18]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the people, the officers.”

[10:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Who is the man who will begin fighting.”

[15:6]  ²¹ tn Or “said.”

[15:6]  ²² tn Heb “and they said.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

[15:6]  ²³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Timnite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Samson) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:6]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew text expands the statement with the additional phrase “burned with fire.” The words “with fire” are redundant in English and have been omitted from the translation for stylistic reasons. Some textual witnesses read “burned…her father’s house,” perhaps under the influence of 14:15. On the other hand, the shorter text may have lost this phrase due to haplography.

[18:3]  ²⁶ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

[18:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

[20:18]  ³¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:18]  ³² tn Heb “They arose and went up to Bethel and asked God, and the Israelites said.”

[20:18]  ³³ tn Heb “Who should go up for us first for battle against the sons of Benjamin?”

[21:5]  ³⁶ tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”

[21:8]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”