You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!

Abimelech commanded Israel for three years.

He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

The Israelites got up the next morning and moved against Gibeah.

But you have attacked my father’s family today. You murdered his seventy legitimate sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative.

The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; Naphtali charged on to the battlefields.

When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of Midian,

So Abimelech and all his men came up at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into four units.

a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.

He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.

She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

Now the Danites took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.

Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Israel’s power continued to overwhelm King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with him.

Kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought, at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no silver as plunder.

Three hundred men lapped; the rest of the men kneeled to drink water.

But the olive tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’

But the fig tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my sweet figs, my excellent fruit, just to sway above the other trees!’