Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ¹  Israelite women commemorate ²  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ³ 

Judges 15:20

15:20 Samson led ⁴  Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence. ⁵ 

Judges 17:6

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

Judges 21:25

21:25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

² tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

³ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the days of the Philistines.”

⁶ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

⁷ 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.