Judges 1:4

1:4 The men of Judah attacked, ¹  and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 8:3

8:3 It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” ²  When he said this, they calmed down. ³ 

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁴  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 20:16

20:16 Among this army ⁵  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. ⁶  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “Judah went up.”

² tn Heb “What was I able to do compared to you?”

³ tn Heb “Then their spirits relaxed from against him, when he spoke this word.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁵ tn Heb “And from all this people.”

⁶ tn Heb “seven hundred choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.

⁷ tn “at a single hair and not miss.”