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Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. 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. Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him. And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.

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. They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.