Judges 7:7

7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army ¹  and I will hand Midian over to you. ²  The rest of the men should go home.” ³ 

Judges 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ⁴  you will encounter ⁵  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ⁶  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ⁷ 

Judges 18:12

18:12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. ⁸  It is west ⁹  of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 19:16

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ¹⁰  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ¹¹ 

[7:7]  ¹ tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.

[7:7]  ² tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.

[7:7]  ³ tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”

[18:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

[18:12]  ⁷ tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”

[18:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “behind.”

[19:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

[19:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”