The mountains trembled before the Lord, the God of Sinai; before the Lord God of Israel.

They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

God answered Manoah’s prayer. God’s angelic messenger visited the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.

They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the Lord angry.

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us.

God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.

But since you abandoned me and worshiped other gods, I will not deliver you again.

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably.

I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’”

The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!”

They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.

Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!”

After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.

The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Gideon said to God, “If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.