Discovery BoxJudges 6:4 
Context6:4 They invaded the land 1 and devoured 2 its crops 3 all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, 4 and they took away 5 the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.
Judges 6:8
Context6:8 he 6 sent a prophet 7 to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt 8 and took you out of that place of slavery. 9
Judges 7:8
Context7:8 The men 10 who were chosen 11 took supplies 12 and their trumpets. Gideon 13 sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; 14 he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites 15 were camped down below 16 in the valley.
Judges 7:19
Context7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp 17 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. 18
Judges 9:43
Context9:43 he took his men 19 and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, 20 he attacked and struck them down. 21
Judges 11:21-22
Context11:21 The Lord God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took 22 all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land. 11:22 They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west. 23
Judges 13:19
Context13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. 24
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 25 and gave them 26 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 27
Judges 16:29
Context16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple 28 and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.
Judges 17:4
Context17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she 29 took two hundred pieces of silver 30 to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. 31
Judges 18:27
Context18:27 Now the Danites 32 took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city. 33
Judges 20:2
Context20:2 The leaders 34 of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered 35 four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.
Judges 20:33
Context20:33 36 All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.
Judges 21:7
Context21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? 37 After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
1 tn Heb “They encamped against them.”
2 tn Heb “destroyed.”
3 tn Heb “the crops of the land.”
4 tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”
5 tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.
8 tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).
9 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
10 tn Heb “The people.”
11 tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
12 tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “tents.”
15 tn Heb “Midian.”
16 tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).
17 tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”
18 tn Heb “that were in their hands.”
19 tn Heb “his people.”
20 tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”
21 tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”
22 tn That is, took as its own possession.
23 tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the desert to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.
24 tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the
25 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
26 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
27 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”
28 tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house was founded.”
29 tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.
30 tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
31 tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”
32 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.
34 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.
35 tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
36 sn Verses 33-36a give a condensed account of the battle from this point on, while vv. 36b-48 offer a more detailed version of how the ambush contributed to Gibeah’s defeat.
37 tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”
