They said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who did this?&#8221;<n id="2" /> They investigated the matter thoroughly<n id="3" /> and concluded<n id="4" /> that Gideon son of Joash had done it.

Now his father and mother did not realize this was the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s doing,<n id="1" /> because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines<n id="2" /> (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).p>

Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, &#8220;Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.&#8221; He went with her into the tent,<n id="1" /> and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead<n id="2" /> with the tent peg in his temple.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place<n id="1" /> to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.<n id="2" />