Judges 1:24-25

1:24 the spies spotted ¹  a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.” 1:25 He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

Judges 3:21

3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ²  belly.

Judges 7:16

7:16 He divided the three hundred men into three units. ³  He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them. ⁴ 

Judges 9:34

9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up ⁵  at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into ⁶  four units.

Judges 19:13

19:13 He said to his servant, ⁷  “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns ⁸  and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

Judges 19:29

19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ⁹  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “saw.”

² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “heads.”

⁴ tn Heb “the jars.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“them”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

sn They hid the torches inside the earthenware jars to disguise their approach and to keep the torches from being extinguished by the breeze.

⁵ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”

⁶ tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷ tn Or “young man.”

⁸ tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”

⁹ tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”