Judges 1:16

1:16 Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the City of Date Palm Trees to Arad in the desert of Judah,¹ located in the Negev.² They went and lived with the people of Judah.³

Judges 4:22

4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent,⁴ and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead⁵ with the tent peg in his temple.

Judges 6:13

6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me,⁶ but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster⁷ overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,⁸ ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Judges 7:24-25

Gideon Appeases the Ephraimites

7:24 Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, “Go down and head off the Midianites.⁹ Take control of the fords of the streams¹⁰ all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.”¹¹ When all the Ephraimites had assembled,¹² they took control of the fords¹³ all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River. 7:25 They captured the two Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb.¹⁴ They executed Oreb on the rock of Oreb and Zeeb¹⁵ in the winepress of Zeeb. They chased the Midianites¹⁶ and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now on the other side of the Jordan River.¹⁷

Judges 11:13

11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole¹⁸ my land when they¹⁹ came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan.²⁰ Now return it²¹ peaceably!”

Judges 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son.²² So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.²³ For the child will be dedicated²⁴ to God from birth till the day he dies.’”

Judges 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us.²⁵ He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Judges 16:13

16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair²⁶ into the fabric on the loom²⁷ and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 17:2

17:2 He said to his mother, “You know²⁸ the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen²⁹ from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole³⁰ it, but now I am giving it back to you.”³¹ His mother said, “May the Lord reward³² you, my son!”

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish³³ said to their kinsmen,³⁴ “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite³⁵ said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem³⁶ in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home.³⁷ But no one has invited me into their home.

¹tc Part of the Greek ms tradition lacks the words “of Judah.”

²tn Heb “[to] the Desert of Judah in the Negev, Arad.”

³tn The phrase “of Judah” is supplied here in the translation. Some ancient textual witnesses read, “They went and lived with the Amalekites.” This reading, however, is probably influenced by 1 Sam 15:6 (see also Num 24:20-21).

⁴tn Heb “he went to her.”

⁵tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

⁶tn Heb “But my lord.”

⁷tn Heb “all this.”

⁸tn Heb “saying.”

⁹tn Heb “to meet Midian.”

¹⁰tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”

¹¹tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification (also later in this verse).

¹²tn Heb “And all the men of Ephraim were summoned.”

¹³tn Heb “they captured the waters.”

¹⁴sn The names Oreb and Zeeb, which mean “Raven” and “Wolf” respectively, are appropriate because the Midianites had been like scavengers and predators to Israel.

¹⁵tn The Hebrew text repeats the verb “executed.” This has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁶tn Heb “Midian.”

¹⁷tn Heb “beyond the Jordan.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarity (also in 8:4).

¹⁸tn Or “took”; or “seized.”

¹⁹tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).

²⁰tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

²¹tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.

²²tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.

²³tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

²⁴tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”

²⁵tn Heb “our hand.”

²⁶tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.

²⁷tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.

²⁸tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁹tn Heb “taken.”

³⁰tn Heb “took.”

³¹tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.

³²tn Traditionally, “bless.”

³³tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

³⁴tn Heb “brothers.”

³⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁶map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

³⁷tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”