Judges 8:30

8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ¹ 

Judges 9:56

9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ² 

Judges 8:14

8:14 He captured a young man from Succoth ³  and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. ⁴ 

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 ⁵  men as his followers. ⁶ 

Judges 12:14

12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

Judges 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ⁷  food scraps ⁸  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ⁹  They brought him to Jerusalem, ¹⁰  where he died.

Judges 9:2

9:2 “Tell ¹¹  all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want ¹²  to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” ¹³ 

Judges 9:5

9:5 He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, ¹⁴  the seventy legitimate ¹⁵  sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, ¹⁶  because he hid.

Judges 9:18

9:18 But you have attacked ¹⁷  my father’s family ¹⁸  today. You murdered his seventy legitimate ¹⁹  sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative. ²⁰ 

Judges 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ²¹  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ²² 

[8:30]  ¹ tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.

[9:56]  ² tn Heb “seventy brothers.”

[8:14]  ³ tn Heb “from the men of Succoth.”

[8:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

[9:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they followed him.”

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

[1:7]  ⁶ tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

[1:7]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”

[9:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “What good is it to you?”

[9:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

[9:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “his brothers.”

[9:5]  ⁸ tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “remained.”

[9:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “have risen up against.”

[9:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[9:18]  ¹⁰ tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your brother.”

[9:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”