Hakim-hakim 8:30

8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ¹ 

Hakim-hakim 21:15

21:15 The people regretted what had happened to ²  Benjamin because the Lord had weakened ³  the Israelite tribes.

[8:30]  ¹ tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.

[21:15]  ² tn Or “felt sorry for.”

[21:15]  ³ tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.