So the Israelites marched toward the Benjaminites the next day.

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said, “Explain how this wicked thing happened!”

The Ammonites assembled and camped in Gilead; the Israelites gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.

The men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day.

The Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.

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

So they commanded the Benjaminites, “Go hide in the vineyards,

Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands.

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 Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, intending to take possession of the land.

The Israelites did evil before the Lord by worshiping the Baals.

The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight after Ehud’s death.

That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord turned them over to Midian for seven years.

Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.