Judges 9:56

9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ¹ 

Judges 15:3

15:3 Samson said to them, ²  “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” ³ 

Judges 18:4

18:4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, ⁴  “He hired me and I became his priest.”

Judges 21:15

21:15 The people regretted what had happened to ⁵  Benjamin because the Lord had weakened ⁶  the Israelite tribes.

[9:56]  ¹ tn Heb “seventy brothers.”

[15:3]  ² tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”

[15:3]  ³ tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”

[18:4]  ³ tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.

[21:15]  ⁴ tn Or “felt sorry for.”

[21:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.