And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. (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. And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.