Judges 3:24

3:24 When Ehud had left, Eglon’s¹ servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, “He must be relieving himself² in the well-ventilated inner room.”³

Judges 6:28

6:28 When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw⁴ the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

Judges 9:36

9:36 Gaal saw the men⁵ and said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadows on the hills – it just looks like men.”⁶

Judges 9:43

9:43 he took his men⁷ and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city,⁸ he attacked and struck them down.⁹

Judges 11:35

11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me!¹⁰ You have brought me disaster!¹¹ I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.”¹²

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help,¹³ I risked my life¹⁴ and advanced against¹⁵ the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up¹⁶ to fight with me today?”

Judges 14:8

14:8 Some time later, when he went back to marry¹⁷ her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw¹⁸ a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

Judges 16:24

16:24 When the people saw him,¹⁹ they praised their god, saying, “Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!”²⁰

Judges 18:9

18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them,²¹ for²² we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic,²³ but don’t hesitate²⁴ to invade and conquer²⁵ the land.

Judges 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight²⁶ said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since²⁷ the Israelites left the land of Egypt!²⁸ Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

Judges 20:40

20:40 But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky.²⁹

¹tn Heb “his.”

²tn Heb “covering his feet” (i.e., with his outer garments while he relieves himself).

³tn The Hebrew expression translated “well-ventilated inner room” may refer to the upper room itself or to a bathroom attached to or within it.

⁴tn Heb “look!” The narrator uses this word to invite his audience/readers to view the scene through the eyes of the men.

⁵tn Heb “the people” (also in vv. 38, 43, 48). These were warriors, so “men” has been used in the translation, since in ancient Israelite culture soldiers would have been exclusively males.

⁶tn Heb “the shadow on the hills you are seeing, like men.”

⁷tn Heb “his people.”

⁸tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

⁹tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

¹⁰tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

¹¹tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

¹²tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

¹³tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

¹⁴tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

¹⁵tn Heb “crossed over to.”

¹⁶tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁷tn Heb “get.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and look, a swarm of bees…”

¹⁹tn Most interpret this as a reference to Samson, but this seems premature, since v. 25 suggests he was not yet standing before them. Consequently some prefer to see this statement as displaced and move it to v. 25 (see C. F. Burney, Judges, 387). It seems more likely that the pronoun refers to an image of Dagon.

²⁰tn Heb “multiplied our dead.”

²¹tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”

²²tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”

²³tn Heb “But you are inactive.”

²⁴tn Or “be lazy.”

²⁵tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”

²⁶tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁷tn Heb “from the day.”

²⁸tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”

²⁹tn Heb “Benjamin turned after him and, look, the whole city went up toward the sky.”