But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. 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. In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

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. And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways. And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.