Judges 9:33

9:33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.” ¹ 

Judges 9:36

9:36 Gaal saw the men ²  and said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadows on the hills – it just looks like men.” ³ 

Judges 9:38

9:38 Zebul said to him, “Where now are your bragging words, ⁴  ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men ⁵  you insulted? ⁶  Go out now and fight them!”

Judges 9:44

9:44 Abimelech and his units ⁷  attacked and blocked ⁸  the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified ⁹  tower ¹⁰  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 11:13

11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole ¹¹  my land when they ¹²  came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. ¹³  Now return it ¹⁴  peaceably!”

Judges 11:26-27

11:26 Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time? 11:27 I have not done you wrong, ¹⁵  but you are doing wrong ¹⁶  by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”

Judges 11:33-34

11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! ¹⁷  The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. ¹⁸ 

11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ¹⁹  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ²⁰  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

Judges 14:6

14:6 The Lord’s spirit empowered ²¹  him and he tore the lion ²²  in two with his bare hands ²³  as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Judges 15:5

15:5 He lit the torches ²⁴  and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

Judges 15:18

15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant ²⁵  this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” ²⁶ 

Judges 18:9

18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, ²⁷  for ²⁸  we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, ²⁹  but don’t hesitate ³⁰  to invade and conquer ³¹  the land.

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders ³²  of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered ³³  four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 20:33

20:33 ³⁴  All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:39

20:39 the Israelites counterattacked. ³⁵  Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; ³⁶  they struck down ³⁷  about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

[9:33]  ¹ tn Heb “Look! He and the people who are with him will come out to you, and you will do to him what your hand finds [to do].”

[9:36]  ² tn Heb “the people” (also in vv. 38, 43, 48). These were warriors, so “men” has been used in the translation, since in ancient Israelite culture soldiers would have been exclusively males.

[9:36]  ³ tn Heb “the shadow on the hills you are seeing, like men.”

[9:38]  ³ tn Heb “is your mouth that says.”

[9:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people.”

[9:38]  ⁵ tn Or “despised.”

[9:44]  ⁴ tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”

[9:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “stood [at].”

[9:51]  ⁵ tn Or “strong.”

[9:51]  ⁶ tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

[11:13]  ⁶ tn Or “took”; or “seized.”

[11:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).

[11:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

[11:13]  ⁹ tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.

[11:27]  ⁷ tn Or “sinned against you.”

[11:27]  ⁸ tn Or “evil.”

[11:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

[11:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

[11:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”

[11:34]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”

[14:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “rushed on.”

[14:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him” or “it”; the referent (the lion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:6]  ¹² tn Heb “and there was nothing in his hand.”

[15:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”

[15:18]  ¹² tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”

[15:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.

[18:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”

[18:9]  ¹⁴ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”

[18:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “But you are inactive.”

[18:9]  ¹⁶ tn Or “be lazy.”

[18:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”

[20:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.

[20:2]  ¹⁵ tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:33]  ¹⁵ sn Verses 33-36a give a condensed account of the battle from this point on, while vv. 36b-48 offer a more detailed version of how the ambush contributed to Gibeah’s defeat.

[20:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “turned in the battle.”

[20:39]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”

[20:39]  ¹⁸ tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.