The people<n id="1" /> buried him in his allotted land<n id="2" /> in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

These were the nations:<n id="1" /> the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When he reached Seirah,<n id="1" /> he blew a trumpet<n id="2" /> in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.<n id="3" />

From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah&#8217;s house.

<p class="bodytext">Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in<n id="1" /> the coastal plain.

<p class="bodytext">When Sisera heard<n id="1" /> that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

<p class="poetry">The mountains trembled<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of Sinai;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">before the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>

Then Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.p>

Gaal saw the men<n id="1" /> and said to Zebul, &#8220;Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.&#8221; But Zebul said to him, &#8220;You are seeing the shadows on the hills &#8211; it just looks like men.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was with the men of Judah. They conquered<n id="1" /> the hill country, but they could not<n id="2" /> conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.<n id="3" />

The Amorites managed<n id="1" /> to remain in Har Heres,<n id="2" /> Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily,<n id="3" /> the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.

She would sit<n id="1" /> under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel<n id="2" /> in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.<n id="3" />p>

The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting<n id="1" /> bandits in<n id="2" /> the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Abimelech&#8217;s death,<n id="1" /> Tola son of Puah, grandson<n id="2" /> of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar,<n id="3" /> rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.

He said, &#8220;You may go.&#8221; He permitted her to leave<n id="1" /> for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.<n id="2" />

This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah&#8217;s house.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">She summoned<n id="1" /> Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, &#8220;Is it not true that the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

Deborah said to Barak, &#8220;Spring into action,<n id="1" /> for this is the day the <sc>Lordsc> is handing Sisera over to you!<n id="2" /> Has the <sc>Lordsc> not taken the lead?&#8221;<n id="3" /> Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.