And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 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 said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am. And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.