But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him. And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs. But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.