Judges 9:3

9:3 His mother’s relatives ¹  spoke on his behalf to ²  all the leaders of Shechem and reported his proposal. ³  The leaders were drawn to Abimelech; ⁴  they said, “He is our close relative.” ⁵ 

Judges 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. ⁶  He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ⁷  said to their kinsmen, ⁸  “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 20:25

20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. ⁹ 

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. ¹⁰ 

[9:3]  ¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[9:3]  ² tn Heb “into the ears of.”

[9:3]  ³ tn Heb “and all these words.”

[9:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “Their heart was inclined after Abimelech.”

[9:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “our brother.”

[13:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “our hand.”

[18:14]  ¹¹ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

[18:14]  ¹² tn Heb “brothers.”

[20:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day, and they struck down among the sons of Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all of these were wielding the sword.”

[20:35]  ²¹ tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”