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 3:16

3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ⁸  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Judges 11:3

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

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 ¹²  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ¹³ 

Judges 11:2

11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave ¹⁴  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, ¹⁵  because you are another woman’s son.”

Judges 16:25

16:25 When they really started celebrating, ¹⁶  they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. ¹⁷  They made him stand between two pillars.

Judges 6:19

6:19 Gideon went and prepared a young goat, ¹⁸  along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food ¹⁹  to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ²⁰  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ²¹  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ²² 

[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.”

[3:16]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

[11:3]  ¹³ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[9:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “bore.”

[11:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

[16:25]  ²² tn Heb “When their heart was good.”

[16:25]  ²³ tn Heb “before them.”

[6:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “a kid from among the goats.”

[6:19]  ²⁶ tn The words “the food” are not in the Hebrew text (an implied direct object). They are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[16:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”