Judges 9:5

9:5 He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, ¹  the seventy legitimate ²  sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, ³  because he hid.

Judges 9:21

9:21 Then Jotham ran away ⁴  to Beer and lived there to escape from ⁵  Abimelech his half-brother. ⁶ 

Judges 9:56

9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ⁷ 

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ⁸  his half-brothers ⁹  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ¹⁰ 

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 ¹¹  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ¹² 

Judges 11:2

11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave ¹³  him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, ¹⁴  because you are another woman’s son.”

[9:5]  ¹ tn Heb “his brothers.”

[9:5]  ² tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:5]  ³ tn Heb “remained.”

[9:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”

[9:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “from before.”

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “his brother.”

[9:56]  ⁷ tn Heb “seventy brothers.”

[11:3]  ¹⁰ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ¹² tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[9:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ¹⁴ 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.”

[11:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “bore.”

[11:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in the house of our father.”