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

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

They captured the two Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb. They executed Oreb on the rock of Oreb and Zeeb in the winepress of Zeeb. They chased the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now on the other side of the Jordan River.

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

Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.

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

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

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 Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

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.

Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.

When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),

The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.

So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander. Jephthah repeated the terms of the agreement before the Lord in Mizpah.

The men of Asher did not conquer the people living in Acco or Sidon, nor did they conquer Ahlab, Aczib, Helbah, Aphek, or Rehob.

Three hundred men lapped; the rest of the men kneeled to drink water.

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

The Lord God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.