Judges 4:14

4:14 Deborah said to Barak, “Spring into action, ¹  for this is the day the Lord is handing Sisera over to you! ²  Has the Lord not taken the lead?” ³  Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

Judges 5:15

5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,

the men of Issachar ⁴  supported ⁵  Barak;

into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. ⁶ 

Among the clans of Reuben there was intense ⁷  heart searching. ⁸ 

Judges 9:43

9:43 he took his men ⁹  and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, ¹⁰  he attacked and struck them down. ¹¹ 

Judges 15:18

15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant ¹²  this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” ¹³ 

Judges 17:4

17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she ¹⁴  took two hundred pieces of silver ¹⁵  to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. ¹⁶ 

Judges 18:18

18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ¹⁷  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹⁸  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ¹⁹ 

Judges 20:32

20:32 Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat ²⁰  and lure them ²¹  away from the city into the main roads.”

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. ²² 

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¹ tn Heb “Arise!”

² tn The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the Lord speaks of it as a “done deal.”

³ tn Heb “Has the Lord not gone out before you?”

⁴ tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Or “was true to.”

⁶ tn Heb “at his feet.”

⁷ tn Heb “great was.”

⁸ tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16.

⁹ tn Heb “his people.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

¹² tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”

¹³ tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.

¹⁴ tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

²⁰ tn Or “run away.”

²¹ tn Heb “him” (collective singular).

²² tn Heb “Benjamin turned after him and, look, the whole city went up toward the sky.”