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. And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 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. Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him. 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. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.