Discovery BoxJudges 4:3 
Context4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera 1 had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, 2 and he cruelly 3 oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
Judges 4:13
Context4:13 he 4 ordered 5 all his chariotry – nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels – and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.
Judges 7:7-8
Context7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army 6 and I will hand Midian over to you. 7 The rest of the men should go home.” 8 7:8 The men 9 who were chosen 10 took supplies 11 and their trumpets. Gideon 12 sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; 13 he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites 14 were camped down below 15 in the valley.
Judges 7:19
Context7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp 16 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. 17
Judges 8:10
Context8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. 18
Judges 8:26
Context8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. 19 This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, 20 purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. 21
Judges 11:26
Context11:26 Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?
Judges 17:4
Context17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she 22 took two hundred pieces of silver 23 to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. 24
Judges 20:2
Context20:2 The leaders 25 of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered 26 four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.
Judges 21:12
Context21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. 27 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Judges 21:23
Context21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. 28 They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. 29 They went home 30 to their own territory, 31 rebuilt their cities, and settled down. 32
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.
3 tn Heb “with strength.”
4 tn Heb “Sisera.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Or “summoned.”
6 tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.
7 tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.
8 tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”
9 tn Heb “The people.”
10 tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
11 tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “tents.”
14 tn Heb “Midian.”
15 tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).
16 tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”
17 tn Heb “that were in their hands.”
18 tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”
19 sn Seventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.
20 tn Or “pendants.”
21 tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”
22 tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.
23 tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”
25 tn 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.
26 tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
27 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”
28 tn Heb “did so.”
29 tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”
30 tn Heb “went and returned.”
31 tn Heb “inheritance.”
32 tn Heb “and lived in them.”
