<t /><p class="bodytext">That night the <sc>Lordsc> said to Gideon,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Get up! Attack<n id="2" /> the camp, for I am handing it over to you.<n id="3" />

Now, come up<n id="1" /> at night with your men<n id="2" /> and set an ambush in the field outside the city.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Abimelech and all his men came up<n id="1" /> at night and set an ambush outside Shechem &#8211; they divided into<n id="2" /> four units.

The Gazites were told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Samson has come here!&#8221; So they surrounded the town<n id="2" /> and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave.<n id="3" /> They relaxed<n id="4" /> all night, thinking,<n id="5" /> &#8220;He will not leave<n id="6" /> until morning comes;<n id="7" /> then we will kill him!&#8221;

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left.<n id="1" /> He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all.<n id="2" /> He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.<n id="3" />p>

That night God did as he asked.<n id="1" /> Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.p>

The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying.<n id="1" /> They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

<t /><p class="bodytext">That night the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Take the bull from your father&#8217;s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old.<n id="1" /> Pull down your father&#8217;s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

So Gideon took ten of his servants<n id="1" /> and did just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told him. He was too afraid of his father&#8217;s family<n id="2" /> and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.<n id="3" />p>

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite<n id="1" /> grabbed his concubine and made her go outside.<n id="2" /> They raped<n id="3" /> her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.