Judges 1:17

1:17 The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon ¹  and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. ²  So people now call the city Hormah. ³ 

Judges 11:33

11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! ⁴  The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. ⁵ 

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ⁶  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁷  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “Judah went with Simeon, his brother.”

² tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Zephath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ sn The name Hormah (חָרְמָה, khormah) sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “wipe out” (חָרַם, kharam).

⁴ tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

⁵ tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

⁶ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

⁷ 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).

⁸ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”