So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering.

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

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

The Lord did as he asked. When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.

Gideon said, “Since you will not help, after the Lord hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh your skin with desert thorns and briers.”

Manoah said to the Lord’s messenger, “Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true.”

She said to him, “My father, since you made an oath to the Lord, do to me as you promised. After all, the Lord vindicated you before your enemies, the Ammonites.”

He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy. Wait until later in the day to leave!” So they ate a meal together.

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.

Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

My heart went out to Israel’s leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the Lord!

When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down and named that place Ramath Lehi.

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

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

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.”

He moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.

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

The Lord’s angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’