Judges 7:2

7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. ¹  Israel might brag, ²  ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ ³ 

Judges 7:18

7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

Judges 9:8

9:8 “The trees were determined to go out ⁴  and choose a king for themselves. ⁵  They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ ⁶ 

Judges 10:10

10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped ⁷  the Baals.”

Judges 11:19

11:19 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, “Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.” ⁸ 

Judges 18:5

18:5 They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, ⁹  so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.” ¹⁰ 

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ¹¹  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ¹² 

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¹ tn Heb “the people who are with you are too numerous for me to give Midian into their hand.”

² tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”

³ tn Heb “my hand has delivered me.”

⁴ tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”

⁵ tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”

⁶ tn Or “Rule over us!”

⁷ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

⁸ tn Heb “to my place.”

⁹ tn Heb “Ask God.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “so we can know if our way on which we are going will be successful.”

¹¹ tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

¹² tn Heb “is cursed.”