Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified ¹  tower ²  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 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ³  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁴  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁵ 

[9:51]  ¹ tn Or “strong.”

[9:51]  ² tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

[20:48]  ³ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

[20:48]  ⁴ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

[20:48]  ⁵ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”