And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull. And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness? And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.