Hakim-hakim 2:9

2:9 The people ¹  buried him in his allotted land ²  in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Hakim-hakim 4:3

4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ³  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ⁴  and he cruelly ⁵  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Hakim-hakim 7:9

Gideon Reassured of Victory

7:9 That night the Lord said to Gideon, ⁶  “Get up! Attack ⁷  the camp, for I am handing it over to you. ⁸ 

Hakim-hakim 9:23

9:23 God sent a spirit to stir up hostility ⁹  between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal ¹⁰  to Abimelech.

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 ¹¹  on them.

Hakim-hakim 10:9

10:9 The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight with Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. ¹²  Israel suffered greatly. ¹³ 

Hakim-hakim 11:22

11:22 They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west. ¹⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 13:14

13:14 She should not drink ¹⁵  anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. ¹⁶  She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”

Hakim-hakim 16:26

16:26 Samson said to the young man who held his hand, “Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple. ¹⁷  Then I can lean on them.”

Hakim-hakim 17:5

17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. ¹⁸  He made an ephod ¹⁹  and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest. ²⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 20:23

20:23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we ²¹  again march out to fight ²²  the Benjaminites, our brothers?” ²³  The Lord said, “Attack them!” ²⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 20:37

20:37 The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash ²⁵  to Gibeah. They ²⁶  attacked ²⁷  and put the sword to the entire city.

[2:9]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “in the territory of his inheritance.”

[4:3]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:3]  ⁴ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

[4:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “with strength.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “Go down against.”

[7:9]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, emphasizing the certainty of the promise.

[9:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “an evil spirit.” A nonphysical, spirit being is in view, like the one who volunteered to deceive Ahab (1 Kgs 22:21). The traditional translation, “evil spirit,” implies the being is inherently wicked, perhaps even demonic, but this is not necessarily the case. The Hebrew adjective רָעַה (ra’ah) can have a nonethical sense, “harmful; dangerous; calamitous.” When modifying רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) it may simply indicate that the being in view causes harm to the object of God’s judgment. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 253) here refers to a “mischief-making spirit.”

[9:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “The leaders of Shechem were disloyal.” The words “he made” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:57]  ¹¹ tn Heb “came.”

[10:9]  ¹² tn Heb “the house of Ephraim.”

[10:9]  ¹³ tn Or “Israel experienced great distress.” Perhaps here the verb has the nuance “hemmed in.”

[11:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the desert to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

[13:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “eat.”

[13:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

[16:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house is founded.”

[17:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “house of God.”

[17:5]  ¹⁹ sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

[17:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”

[20:23]  ²¹ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

[20:23]  ²² tn Heb “approach for battle.”

[20:23]  ²³ tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).

[20:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Go up against him” (collective singular).

[20:37]  ²⁵ tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”

[20:37]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the men hiding in ambush.”

[20:37]  ²⁷ tn Or “deployed.” The verb normally means “to lead” or “to draw.”