Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 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.