Judges 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 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. 4
Judges 11:33
Context11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! 5 The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. 6
Judges 16:31
Context16:31 His brothers and all his family 7 went down and brought him back. 8 They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led 9 Israel for twenty years.
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 “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.”
5 tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”
6 tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”
7 tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”
8 tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”
9 tn Traditionally, “judged.”