Judges 3:6

3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ¹  they worshiped ²  their gods as well.

Judges 5:2

5:2 “When the leaders took the lead ³  in Israel,

When the people answered the call to war –

Praise the Lord!

Judges 6:34

6:34 The Lord’s spirit took control of ⁴  Gideon. He blew a trumpet, ⁵  summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. ⁶ 

Judges 18:20

18:20 The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group. ⁷ 

Judges 20:30

20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ⁸  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

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¹ tn Heb “to their sons.”

² tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).

³ tn The meaning of the Hebrew expression בִּפְרֹעַ פְּרָעוֹת (bifroa’ pÿra’ot) is uncertain. Numerous proposals are offered by commentators. (For a survey of opinions, see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 223-27.) The next line refers to the people who responded to Barak’s summons to war, so a reference to the leaders who issued the summons would provide a natural poetic parallel. In v. 9 the leaders (חוֹקְקֵי, khoqÿqey) of the people and these same volunteers stand in poetic parallelism, so it is reasonable to assume that the difficult Hebrew term פְּרַעוֹת (pÿra’ot, v. 2a) is synonymous with חוֹקְקֵי (khoqÿqey) of v. 9 (see Lindars, 227).

⁴ tn Heb “clothed.”

⁵ tn That is, “mustered an army.”

⁶ tn Heb “Abiezer was summoned after him.”

⁷ tn Heb “and went into the midst of the people.”

⁸ tn Heb “the third day.”