Judges 2:23

2:23 This is why ¹  the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; ²  he did not hand them over to Joshua.

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 8:34

8:34 The Israelites did not remain true ⁵  to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ⁶  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 20:42

20:42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook ⁷  them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. ⁸ 

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¹ tn The words “this is why” are interpretive.

² tn Or “quickly.”

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 The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“them”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.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 “remember.”

⁶ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

⁷ tn Heb “clung to”; or “stuck close.”

⁸ tn Heb “and those from the cities were striking them down in their midst.”