Hakim-hakim 1:26

1:26 He ¹  moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

Hakim-hakim 4:24

4:24 Israel’s power continued to overwhelm ²  King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with ³  him. ⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 5:31

5:31 May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!

But may those who love you shine

like the rising sun at its brightest!” ⁵ 

And the land had rest for forty years.

Hakim-hakim 6:10

6:10 I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship ⁶  the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’” ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 6:24

6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” ⁸  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Hakim-hakim 6:32

6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, ⁹  because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

Hakim-hakim 6:40

6:40 That night God did as he asked. ¹⁰  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Hakim-hakim 7:18

7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

Hakim-hakim 8:28

Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. ¹¹  The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time. ¹² 

Hakim-hakim 8:32

8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a very ¹³  old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Hakim-hakim 8:35

8:35 They did not treat ¹⁴  the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.

Hakim-hakim 9:25

9:25 The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting ¹⁵  bandits in ¹⁶  the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it. ¹⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 9:57

9:57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell ¹⁸  on them.

Hakim-hakim 10:10

10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped ¹⁹  the Baals.”

Hakim-hakim 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ²⁰  his half-brothers ²¹  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ²² 

Hakim-hakim 11:31

11:31 then whoever is the first to come through ²³  the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites – he ²⁴  will belong to the Lord and ²⁵  I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.”

Hakim-hakim 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ²⁶  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Hakim-hakim 14:4

14:4 Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, ²⁷  because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines ²⁸  (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

Hakim-hakim 18:31

18:31 They worshiped ²⁹  Micah’s carved image ³⁰  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ³¹  was in Shiloh.

Hakim-hakim 20:2

20:2 The leaders ³²  of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered ³³  four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Hakim-hakim 20:16

20:16 Among this army ³⁴  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. ³⁵  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. ³⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 20:34

20:34 Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah – the battle was fierce. ³⁷  But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep. ³⁸ 

[1:26]  ¹ tn Heb “the man.”

[4:24]  ² tn Heb “The hand of the Israelites became more and more severe against.”

[4:24]  ³ tn Heb “cut off.”

[4:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jabin king of Canaan.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

[6:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “Do not fear.”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

[6:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

[6:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”

[6:40]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “God did so that night.”

[8:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”

[8:28]  ¹² tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”

[8:32]  ¹³ tn Heb “good.”

[8:35]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “did not do loyalty with,” or “did not act faithfully toward.”

[9:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “set against him bandits.”

[9:25]  sn Putting bandits in the hills. This piracy certainly interrupted or discouraged trade, and probably deprived Abimelech of tariffs or tribute. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 277; G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 253.

[9:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “on the tops of.”

[9:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “It was told to Abimelech.”

[9:57]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “came.”

[10:10]  ¹⁹ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

[11:3]  ²⁰ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ²¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ²² tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[11:31]  ²³ tn Heb “the one coming out, who comes out from.” The text uses a masculine singular participle with prefixed article, followed by a relative pronoun and third masculine singular verb. The substantival masculine singular participle הַיּוֹצֵא (hayyotse’, “the one coming out”) is used elsewhere of inanimate objects (such as a desert [Num 21:13] or a word [Num 32:24]) or persons (Jer 5:6; 21:9; 38:2). In each case context must determine the referent. Jephthah may have envisioned an animal meeting him, since the construction of Iron Age houses would allow for an animal coming through the doors of a house (see R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 208). But the fact that he actually does offer up his daughter indicates the language of the vow is fluid enough to encompass human beings, including women. He probably intended such an offering from the very beginning, but he obviously did not expect his daughter to meet him first.

[11:31]  ²⁴ tn The language is fluid enough to include women and perhaps even animals, but the translation uses the masculine pronoun because the Hebrew form is grammatically masculine.

[11:31]  ²⁵ tn Some translate “or,” suggesting that Jephthah makes a distinction between humans and animals. According to this view, if a human comes through the door, then Jephthah will commit him/her to the Lord’s service, but if an animal comes through the doors, he will offer it up as a sacrifice. However, it is far more likely that the Hebrew construction (vav [ו] + perfect) specifies how the subject will become the Lord’s, that is, by being offered up as a sacrifice. For similar constructions, where the apodosis of a conditional sentence has at least two perfects (each with vav) in sequence, see Gen 34:15-16; Exod 18:16.

[13:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[14:4]  ²⁷ tn Heb “this was from the LORD.”

[14:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for an opportunity he was seeking from the Philistines.”

[18:31]  ²⁹ tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

[18:31]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

[18:31]  ³¹ tn Heb “the house of God.”

[20:2]  ³² 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.

[20:2]  ³³ tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:16]  ³⁴ tn Heb “And from all this people.”

[20:16]  ³⁵ tn Heb “seven hundred choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.

[20:16]  ³⁶ tn “at a single hair and not miss.”

[20:34]  ³⁷ tn Heb “heavy”; or “severe.”

[20:34]  ³⁸ tn Heb “And they did not know that touching against them was disaster.”