Judges 7:16

7:16 He divided the three hundred men into three units. 1  He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them. 2 

Judges 9:25

9:25 The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting 3  bandits in 4  the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it. 5 

Judges 20:16

20:16 Among this army 6  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. 7  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. 8 

1 tn Heb “heads.”

2 tn Heb “the jars.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“them”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

sn They hid the torches inside the earthenware jars to disguise their approach and to keep the torches from being extinguished by the breeze.

3 tn Heb “set against him bandits.”

sn Putting bandits in the hills. This piracy certainly interrupted or discouraged trade, and probably deprived Abimelech of tariffs or tribute. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 277; G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 253.

4 tn Heb “on the tops of.”

5 tn Heb “It was told to Abimelech.”

6 tn Heb “And from all this people.”

7 tn Heb “seven hundred choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.

8 tn “at a single hair and not miss.”