Judges 1:8

1:8 The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

Judges 6:16

6:16 The Lord said to him, “Ah, but ¹  I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.” ² 

Judges 6:23

6:23 The Lord said to him, “You are safe! ³  Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

Judges 8:30

8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ⁴ 

Judges 9:53

9:53 a woman threw an upper millstone ⁵  down on his ⁶  head and shattered his skull.

Judges 10:13

10:13 But since you abandoned me and worshiped ⁷  other gods, I will not deliver you again.

Judges 17:6

17:6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ⁸ 

Judges 17:12

17:12 Micah paid ⁹  the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

Judges 18:6

18:6 The priest said to them, “Go with confidence. ¹⁰  The Lord will be with you on your mission.” ¹¹ 

Judges 18:16

18:16 Meanwhile the six hundred Danites, fully armed, stood at the entrance to the gate. ¹² 

Judges 21:9

21:9 When they took roll call, ¹³  they noticed ¹⁴  none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.

Judges 21:13

21:13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed. ¹⁵ 

Judges 21:25

21:25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn Or “certainly.”

² tn Heb “You will strike down Midian as one man.” The idiom “as one man” emphasizes the collective unity of a group (see Judg 20:8, 11). Here it may carry the force, “as if they were just one man.”

³ tn Heb “Peace to you.” For a similar use of this idiom to introduce a reassuring word, see Gen 43:23.

⁴ tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.

⁵ sn A hand mill consisted of an upper stone and larger lower stone. One would turn the upper stone with a handle to grind the grain, which was placed between the stones. An upper millstone, which was typically about two inches thick and a foot or so in diameter, probably weighed 25-30 pounds (11.4-13.6 kg). See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 268; C. F. Burney, Judges, 288.

⁶ tn Heb “Abimelech’s.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “his” in the translation in keeping with conventions of English narrative style.

⁷ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

⁸ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

⁹ tn Heb “filled the hand of.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in peace.”

¹¹ tn Heb “In front of the LORD is your way in which you are going.”

¹² tn Heb “And the six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war…from the sons of Dan.”

¹³ tn Or “when the people were mustered.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and look.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “And all the assembly sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the cliff of Rimmon and they proclaimed to them peace.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

sn Each man did what he considered to be right. The Book of Judges closes with this note, which summarizes the situation of the Israelite tribes during this period.