You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!

Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Capture your prisoners of war, son of Abinoam!

The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; Naphtali charged on to the battlefields.

Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites.

Then Jotham ran away to Beer and lived there to escape from Abimelech his half-brother.

Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ran from him. Many Shechemites fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group.

They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, and annihilated them all the way to a spot east of Geba.

So he brought the men down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.”

When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords throughout the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed.

The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon, “Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites. Then we will go with you into your allotted land.” So the men of Simeon went with them.

They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”

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

Now Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.

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

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the stronghold and set fire to it. All the people of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.