And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? 11:24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light. And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.