Judges 6:27
6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants 1 and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family 2 and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. 3
Judges 6:39
6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. 4 Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” 5
Judges 7:13
7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. 6 The man 7 said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw 8 a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” 9
Judges 9:18
9:18 But you have attacked 10 my father’s family 11 today. You murdered his seventy legitimate 12 sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative. 13
Judges 9:48
9:48 He and all his men 14 went up on Mount Zalmon. He 15 took an ax 16 in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it 17 on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” 18
Judges 13:23
13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. 19 He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
Judges 16:17
16:17 Finally he told her his secret. 20 He said to her, “My hair has never been cut, 21 for I have been dedicated to God 22 from the time I was conceived. 23 If my head 24 were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”
Judges 18:19
18:19 They said to him, “Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser 25 and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?” 26
Judges 20:31
20:31 The Benjaminites attacked 27 the army, leaving the city unguarded. 28 They began to strike down their enemy 29 just as they had done before. On the main roads (one leads to Bethel, 30 the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down 31 about thirty Israelites.
1 tn Heb “men from among his servants.”
2 tn Heb “house.”
3 tn Heb “so he did it at night.”
4 tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”
5 tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”
6 tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.
9 tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”
10 tn Heb “have risen up against.”
11 tn Heb “house.”
12 tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.
13 tn Heb “your brother.”
14 tn Heb “his people.”
15 tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.
16 tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.
17 tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”
18 tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”
19 tn Heb “our hand.”
20 tn Heb “all his heart.”
21 tn Heb “a razor has not come upon my head.”
22 tn Or “set apart to God.” Traditionally the Hebrew term נָזִיר (nazir) has been translated “Nazirite.” The word is derived from the verb נָזַר (nazar, “to dedicate; to consecrate; to set apart”).
23 tn Heb “from the womb of my mother.”
24 tn Heb “I.” The referent has been made more specific in the translation (“my head”).
25 tn See the note on the word “adviser” in 17:10.
26 tn Heb “Is it better for you to be priest for the house of one man or for you to be priest for a tribe, for a clan in Israel?”
27 tn Heb “went out to meet.”
28 tn Heb “and they were drawn away from the city.”
29 tn Heb “from the army wounded ones.”
30 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
31 tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.