Judges 6:4

6:4 They invaded the land¹ and devoured² its crops³ all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat,⁴ and they took away⁵ the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

Judges 6:8

6:8 he⁶ sent a prophet⁷ to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt⁸ and took you out of that place of slavery.⁹

Judges 7:8

7:8 The men¹⁰ who were chosen¹¹ took supplies¹² and their trumpets. Gideon¹³ sent all the men of Israel back to their homes;¹⁴ he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites¹⁵ were camped down below¹⁶ in the valley.

Judges 7:19

7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp¹⁷ at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.¹⁸

Judges 9:43

9:43 he took his men¹⁹ and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city,²⁰ he attacked and struck them down.²¹

Judges 11:21-22

11:21 The Lord God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took²² all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land. 11:22 They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.²³

Judges 13:19

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.²⁴

Judges 14:19

14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes²⁵ and gave them²⁶ to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.²⁷

Judges 16:29

16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple²⁸ and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.

Judges 17:4

17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she²⁹ took two hundred pieces of silver³⁰ to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house.³¹

Judges 18:27

18:27 Now the Danites³² took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.³³

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders³⁴ of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered³⁵ four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 20:33

20:33 ³⁶ All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

Judges 21:7

21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left?³⁷ After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

¹tn Heb “They encamped against them.”

²tn Heb “destroyed.”

³tn Heb “the crops of the land.”

⁴tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”

⁵tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶tn Heb “the Lord”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

⁸tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).

⁹tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

¹⁰tn Heb “The people.”

¹¹tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹²tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

¹³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴tn Heb “tents.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Midian.”

¹⁶tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

¹⁷tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”

¹⁸tn Heb “that were in their hands.”

¹⁹tn Heb “his people.”

²⁰tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

²¹tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

²²tn That is, took as its own possession.

²³tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the desert to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

²⁴tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

²⁵tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”

²⁶tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”

²⁷tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”

²⁸tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house was founded.”

²⁹tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.

³⁰tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³¹tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”

³²tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³³tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.

³⁴tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.

³⁵tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³⁶sn Verses 33-36a give a condensed account of the battle from this point on, while vv. 36b-48 offer a more detailed version of how the ambush contributed to Gibeah’s defeat.

³⁷tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”