Judges 1:6

1:6 When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Judges 1:13

1:13 When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother,¹ captured it, Caleb² gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.

Judges 1:25

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 2:9

2:9 The people³ buried him in his allotted land⁴ in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Judges 3:4

3:4 They were left to test Israel, so the Lord would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.⁵

Judges 3:22

3:22 The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud⁶ did not pull the sword out of his belly.⁷

Judges 4:2

4:2 The Lord turned them over to⁸ King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor.⁹ The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.¹⁰

Judges 8:4

Gideon Tracks Down the Midianite Kings

8:4 Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites.¹¹

Judges 8:25

8:25 They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.”¹² So they¹³ spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

Judges 8:32

8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a very¹⁴ old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 9:4

9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous¹⁵ men as his followers.¹⁶

Judges 9:19

9:19 So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family¹⁷ today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness!¹⁸

Judges 9:33-35

9:33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.”¹⁹

9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up²⁰ at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into²¹ four units. 9:35 When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left²² his half-brothers²³ and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him.²⁴

Judges 11:23

11:23 Since²⁵ the Lord God of Israel has driven out²⁶ the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?²⁷

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home,²⁸ he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye.²⁹ Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 16:21

16:21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

Judges 16:26

16:26 Samson said to the young man who held his hand, “Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple.³⁰ Then I can lean on them.”

Judges 17:5

17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine.³¹ He made an ephod³² and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.³³

Judges 19:12-13

19:12 But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live.³⁴ We will travel on to Gibeah.” 19:13 He said to his servant,³⁵ “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns³⁶ 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.³⁷ Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.³⁸

Judges 20:8

20:8 All Israel rose up in unison³⁹ and said, “Not one of us will go home!⁴⁰ Not one of us will return⁴¹ to his house!

Judges 21:1

600 Brides for 600 Brothers

21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

Judges 21:24

21:24 Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.⁴²

¹tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel was Caleb’s nephew; so CEV).

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

³tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴tn Heb “in the territory of his inheritance.”

⁵tn Heb “to know if they would hear the commands of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”

⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ehud) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷tn The Hebrew text has “and he went out to the [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew word פַּרְשְׁדֹנָה (parshÿdonah) which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. The noun has the article prefixed and directive suffix. The word may be a technical architectural term, indicating the area into which Ehud moved as he left the king and began his escape. In this case Ehud is the subject of the verb “went out.” The present translation omits the clause, understanding it as an ancient variant of the first clause in v. 23. Some take the noun as “back,” understand “sword” (from the preceding clause) as the subject, and translate “the sword came out his [i.e., Eglon’s] back.” But this rendering is unlikely since the Hebrew word for “sword” (חֶרֶב, kherev) is feminine and the verb form translated “came out” (וַיֵּצֵא, vayyetse’) is masculine. (One expects agreement in gender when the subject is supplied from the preceding clause. See Ezek 33:4, 6.) See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 146-48, for discussion of the options.

⁸tn Heb “the Lord sold them into the hands of.”

⁹tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”

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¹⁰tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

¹¹tn Heb “And Gideon arrived at the Jordan, crossing over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, exhausted and chasing.” The English past perfect (“had crossed”) is used because this verse flashes back chronologically to an event that preceded the hostile encounter described in vv. 1-3. (Note that 7:25 assumes Gideon had already crossed the Jordan.)

¹²tn Heb “We will indeed give.”

¹³tc In the LXX the subject of this verb is singular, referring to Gideon rather than to the Israelites.

¹⁴tn Heb “good.”

¹⁵tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and they followed him.”

¹⁷tn Heb “house.”

¹⁸tn Heb “then rejoice in Abimelech, and may he also rejoice in you.”

¹⁹tn Heb “Look! He and the people who are with him will come out to you, and you will do to him what your hand finds [to do].”

²⁰tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”

²¹tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²²tn Or “fled from.”

²³tn Heb “brothers.”

²⁴tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

²⁵tn Heb “Now.”

²⁶tn Or “dispossessed.”

²⁷tn Heb “will you dispossess him [i.e., Israel; or possibly “it,” i.e., the territory]?” There is no interrogative marker in the Hebrew text.

²⁸tn Heb “and he went up.”

²⁹tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

³⁰tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house is founded.”

³¹tn Heb “house of God.”

³²sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

³³tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”

³⁴tn Heb “who are not from the sons of Israel.”

³⁵tn Or “young man.”

³⁶tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”

³⁷tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

³⁸tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”

³⁹tn Heb “as one man.”

⁴⁰tn Heb “to his tent.”

⁴¹tn Or “turn aside.”

⁴²tn Heb “his inheritance.”