Judges 3:13

3:13 Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

Judges 15:8

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

Judges 20:36

20:36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.

The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.


tn Heb “and he gathered to him.”

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

tn Heb “gave place to.”