Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

Samson’s bride was then given to his best man.

The Lord said to him, “You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.

The Lord’s messenger said to him, “You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.”

She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.

So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.

Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, “He hired me and I became his priest.”

They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”

They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house (which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

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.”

Gilead’s wife also gave him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, because you are another woman’s son.”

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.

Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it, Caleb gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.

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.”

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