Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. 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.

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them. And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel. And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan. 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.