And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

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. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up, And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 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 saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.