Hakim-hakim 3:10

3:10 The Lord’s spirit empowered him ¹  and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him. ² 

Hakim-hakim 7:13

7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ³  The man ⁴  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ⁵  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ⁷  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ⁸ 

Hakim-hakim 11:29

A Foolish Vow Spells Death for a Daughter

11:29 The Lord’s spirit empowered ⁹  Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went ¹⁰  to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites. ¹¹ 

[3:10]  ¹ tn Heb “was on him.”

[3:10]  ² tn Heb “his hand was strong against Cushan-Rishathaim.”

[7:13]  ³ tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

[7:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

[9:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

[11:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “was on.”

[11:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “passed through.”

[11:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “From Mizpah in Gilead he passed through [to] the Ammonites.”