When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.

The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered the hill country, but they could not conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.

He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on! Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, because he was still young.

Gideon continued, “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.” (The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest.”

Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated. The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.

When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

When Sisera heard that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

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

The Lord said to him, “Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

That night the Lord said to Gideon, “Get up! Attack the camp, for I am handing it over to you.

The officials of Succoth said, “You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your army?”

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.