Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.