the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

They named it Dan after their ancestor, who was one of Israel’s sons. But the city’s name used to be Laish.

But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky.

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.

When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),

When Zebul, the city commissioner, heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he was furious.

Jephthah led Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.

The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.

The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush sent up a smoke signal from the city,

There was a fortified tower in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.

The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. So people now call the city Hormah.

He moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

He seized the leaders of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them.

Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.