Hakim-hakim 5:15

5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,

the men of Issachar ¹  supported ²  Barak;

into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. ³ 

Among the clans of Reuben there was intense ⁴  heart searching. ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 9:44

9:44 Abimelech and his units ⁶  attacked and blocked ⁷  the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

Hakim-hakim 15:5

15:5 He lit the torches ⁸  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.

Hakim-hakim 16:21

16:21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

Hakim-hakim 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ⁹  you will encounter ¹⁰  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ¹¹  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ¹² 

Hakim-hakim 19:29

19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ¹³  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ¹⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ¹⁵ 

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:15]  ² tn Or “was true to.”

[5:15]  ³ tn Heb “at his feet.”

[5:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “great was.”

[5:15]  ⁵ tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16.

[9:44]  ⁶ tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”

[9:44]  ⁷ tn Heb “stood [at].”

[15:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”

[18:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ¹² tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

[19:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

[19:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”

[20:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”