Judges 9:43

9:43 he took his men ¹  and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, ²  he attacked and struck them down. ³ 

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches ⁴  against the stronghold and set fire to it. ⁵  All the people ⁶  of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

Judges 15:5

15:5 He lit the torches ⁷  and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ⁸  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁹  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “his people.”

² tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

³ tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

⁴ tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

⁶ tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.

⁷ tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”

⁸ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

⁹ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

¹⁰ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”