Hakim-hakim 1:4

1:4 The men of Judah attacked, ¹  and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Hakim-hakim 3:24

3:24 When Ehud had left, Eglon’s ²  servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, “He must be relieving himself ³  in the well-ventilated inner room.” ⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 9:4

9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous ⁵  men as his followers. ⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁷  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Hakim-hakim 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ⁸  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Hakim-hakim 19:23

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

Hakim-hakim 21:14

21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ⁹  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ¹⁰ 

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Judah went up.”

[3:24]  ² tn Heb “his.”

[3:24]  ³ tn Heb “covering his feet” (i.e., with his outer garments while he relieves himself).

[3:24]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew expression translated “well-ventilated inner room” may refer to the upper room itself or to a bathroom attached to or within it.

[9:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

[9:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they followed him.”

[13:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[15:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

[21:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”