Judges 4:3

4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ¹  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ²  and he cruelly ³  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Judges 8:10

8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. ⁴ 

Judges 11:33

11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! ⁵  The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. ⁶ 

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ⁷  went down and brought him back. ⁸  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ⁹  Israel for twenty years.

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¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

³ tn Heb “with strength.”

⁴ tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”

⁵ tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

⁶ tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

⁷ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

⁸ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

⁹ tn Traditionally, “judged.”