Judges 1:19

1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered ¹  the hill country, but they could not ²  conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels. ³ 

Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ⁴  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ⁵  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 6:4

6:4 They invaded the land ⁶  and devoured ⁷  its crops ⁸  all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, ⁹  and they took away ¹⁰  the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

Judges 7:19

7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp ¹¹  at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying. ¹² 

Judges 18:3

18:3 As they approached ¹³  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ¹⁴  of the young Levite. So they stopped ¹⁵  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ¹⁶ 

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, ¹⁷  went up to ¹⁸  Bethel. ¹⁹  They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything ²⁰  that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace ²¹  to the Lord.

Judges 20:39

20:39 the Israelites counterattacked. ²²  Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; ²³  they struck down ²⁴  about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ²⁵  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ²⁶  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ²⁷ 

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ²⁸  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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¹ tn Or “seized possession of”; or “occupied.”

² tc Several textual witnesses support the inclusion of this verb.

³ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

⁴ tn Or “fathers.”

⁵ tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

⁶ tn Heb “They encamped against them.”

⁷ tn Heb “destroyed.”

⁸ tn Heb “the crops of the land.”

⁹ tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”

¹⁰ tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹¹ tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”

¹² tn Heb “that were in their hands.”

¹³ tn Or “When they were near.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

¹⁵ tn Heb “turned aside.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and all the people.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “went up and came [to].”

¹⁹ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

²⁰ tn Traditionally, “fasted.”

²¹ tn Or “peace offerings.”

²² tn Heb “turned in the battle.”

²³ tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”

²⁴ tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁵ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

²⁶ 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).

²⁷ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”

²⁸ tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”