Judges 8:14

8:14 He captured a young man from Succoth ¹  and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. ² 

Judges 9:4

9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous ³  men as his followers. ⁴ 

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ⁵  his half-brothers ⁶  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ⁷ 

Judges 16:27

16:27 Now the temple ⁸  was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

Judges 18:22

18:22 After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors ⁹  gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Judges 20:12

20:12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe ¹⁰  of Benjamin, saying, “How could such a wicked thing take place? ¹¹ 

Judges 8:5

8:5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Give ¹²  some loaves of bread to the men ¹³  who are following me, ¹⁴  because they are exhausted. I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified ¹⁵  tower ¹⁶  in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River ¹⁷  opposite Ephraim. ¹⁸  Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive ¹⁹  said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked ²⁰  him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ²¹  said to their kinsmen, ²²  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 19:25

19:25 The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite ²³  grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. ²⁴  They raped ²⁵  her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

[8:14]  ¹ tn Heb “from the men of Succoth.”

[8:14]  ² tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”

[9:4]  ³ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they followed him.”

[11:3]  ⁵ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[16:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[18:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house.”

[20:12]  ¹¹ tc The MT reads the plural, but surely the singular (which is supported by the LXX and Vulgate) is preferable here.

[20:12]  ¹² tn Heb “What is this wicked thing which happened among you?”

[8:5]  ¹³ tn Or perhaps, “sell.”

[8:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because these were warriors and in ancient Israelite culture would have been exclusively males.

[8:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “who are at my feet.”

[9:51]  ¹⁵ tn Or “strong.”

[9:51]  ¹⁶ tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

[12:5]  ¹⁷ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:5]  ¹⁸ tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

[12:5]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

[12:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “say to.”

[18:14]  ¹⁹ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

[18:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “brothers.”

[19:25]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:25]  ²² tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”

[19:25]  ²³ tn Heb “knew,” in the sexual sense.