They did not treat the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.

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

Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, “My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”

We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”