And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.