And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home. And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to. Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him. Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there. And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there. Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.