Judges 3:13

3:13 Eglon formed alliances with ¹  the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

Judges 5:19

5:19 Kings came, they fought;

the kings of Canaan fought,

at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, ² 

but ³  they took no silver as plunder.

Judges 6:5

6:5 When they invaded ⁴  with their cattle and tents, they were as thick ⁵  as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. ⁶  They came to devour ⁷  the land.

Judges 9:34-35

9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up ⁸  at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into ⁹  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.

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¹ tn Heb “and he gathered to him.”

² map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

³ tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.

⁴ tn Heb “came up.”

⁵ tn Heb “numerous.”

⁶ tn Heb “To them and to their camels there was no number.”

⁷ tn Heb “destroy.” The translation “devour” carries through the imagery of a locust plague earlier in this verse.

⁸ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”

⁹ tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.