And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim. And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.