Judges 9:22

God Fulfills Jotham’s Curse

9:22 Abimelech commanded ¹  Israel for three years.

Judges 2:8

2:8 Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ²  so the Lord turned them over to ³  Midian for seven years.

Judges 12:7

12:7 Jephthah led ⁴  Israel for six years; then he ⁵  died and was buried in his city in Gilead. ⁶ 

Judges 12:11

12:11 After him Elon the Zebulunite led ⁷  Israel for ten years. ⁸ 

Judges 12:14

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

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ⁹ 

Judges 3:8

3:8 The Lord was furious with Israel ¹⁰  and turned them over to ¹¹  King Cushan-Rishathaim ¹²  of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects ¹³  for eight years.

Judges 6:25

Gideon Destroys the Altar

6:25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. ¹⁴  Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Judges 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. ¹⁵  For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” ¹⁶ 

Judges 11:39

11:39 After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin. ¹⁷  Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel. ¹⁸ 

Judges 12:9

12:9 He had thirty sons. He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, ¹⁹  and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons. ²⁰  Ibzan ²¹  led ²²  Israel for seven years;

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors ²³  against Jabesh Gilead. ²⁴  They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords ²⁵  the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

[9:22]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verb translated “commanded” (שָׂרַר, sarar), which appears only here in Judges, differs from the ones employed earlier in this chapter (מָשַׁל [mashal] and מָלַךְ [malakh]).

[6:1]  ² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[6:1]  ³ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

[12:7]  ³ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[12:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jephthah the Gileadite.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:7]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text has “in the cities of Gilead.” The present translation has support from some ancient Greek textual witnesses.

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “…led Israel. He led Israel for ten years.”

[20:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

[3:8]  ⁶ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned (or raged) against Israel.”

[3:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

[3:8]  ⁸ tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”

[3:8]  ⁹ tn Or “they served Cushan-Rishathaim.”

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar.

[11:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

[11:37]  ⁹ tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

[11:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “She had never known a man.” Some understand this to mean that her father committed her to a life of celibacy, but the disjunctive clause (note the vav + subject + verb pattern) more likely describes her condition at the time the vow was fulfilled. (See G. F. Moore, Judges [ICC], 302-3; C. F. Burney, Judges, 324.) She died a virgin and never experienced the joys of marriage and motherhood.

[11:39]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “There was a custom in Israel.”

[12:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “thirty daughters he sent off outside.” Another option is to translate, “He arranged for his thirty daughters…” It is not clear if he had more than the “thirty daughters” mentioned in the text.

[12:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and thirty daughters he brought for his sons from the outside.”

[12:9]  ¹² tn Heb “He”; the referent (Ibzan) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for English stylistic reasons.

[12:9]  ¹³ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[21:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[21:10]  ¹² tn Heb “there.”

[21:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”