But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with Purah your servant

“So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’

“So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You come and be our king!’

“So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’

Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.

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

Since the Lord God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them, “How did it go?”

But Joash said to all those who confronted him, “Must you fight Baal’s battles? Must you rescue him? Whoever takes up his cause will die by morning! If he really is a god, let him fight his own battles! After all, it was his altar that was pulled down.”

but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?

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.’”

Gideon said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

The men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us – you, your son, and your grandson. For you have delivered us from Midian’s power.”

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”

Are you really better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he dare to quarrel with Israel? Did he dare to fight with them?

The Lord’s angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said, “Yes.”

But if you cannot solve it, you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.” They said to him, “Let us hear your riddle.”