Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

After him Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite led Israel.

The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this victory song:

Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down.

Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the pass of Heres.

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.”

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

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

When Zebul, the city commissioner, heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he was furious.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.

After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud, delivered Israel.

Gaal son of Ebed came through Shechem with his brothers. The leaders of Shechem transferred their loyalty to him.

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

He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, because he hid.

The men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us – you, your son, and your grandson. For you have delivered us from Midian’s power.”

Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech?

The Danites worshiped the carved image. Jonathan, descendant of Gershom, son of Moses, and his descendants served as priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the exile.

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