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. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 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 the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.