Judges 9:34
Context9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up 1 at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into 2 four units.
Judges 11:40
Context11:40 Every year 3 Israelite women commemorate 4 the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. 5
Judges 19:2
Context19:2 However, she 6 got angry at him 7 and went home 8 to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
Judges 20:2
Context20:2 The leaders 9 of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered 10 four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.
Judges 20:17
Context20:17 The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior. 11
Judges 20:47
Context20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.
Judges 21:12
Context21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. 12 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.


[9:34] 1 tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”
[9:34] 2 tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[11:40] 3 tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”
[11:40] 4 tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.
[11:40] 5 tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[19:2] 5 tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[19:2] 6 tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).
[19:2] 7 tn Heb “went from him.”
[20:2] 7 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] 8 tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[20:17] 9 tn Heb “a man of war.”
[21:12] 11 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”