And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months. And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him. And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him. And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. And he arose out of his seat. The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.