Whenever they went out to fight,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> did them harm,<n id="2" /> just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do.<n id="3" /> They suffered greatly.<n id="4" />p>

His hair<n id="1" /> began to grow back after it had been shaved off.p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the nations the <sc>Lordsc> permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel &#8211; he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.<n id="1" />

Abimelech and his units<n id="1" /> attacked and blocked<n id="2" /> the entrance to the city&#8217;s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the <sc>Lordsc> our God has driven out before us.<n id="1" />

After they had gone a good distance from Micah&#8217;s house, Micah&#8217;s neighbors<n id="1" /> gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Samson&#8217;s bride was then given to his best man.<n id="1" />p>

Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.<n id="1" />

The people worshiped<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> throughout Joshua&#8217;s lifetime and as long as the elderly men<n id="2" /> who outlived him remained alive. These men had witnessed<n id="3" /> all the great things the <sc>Lordsc> had done for Israel.<n id="4" />

<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 he brought the men<n id="1" /> down to the water. Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Gideon, &#8220;Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Samson said, &#8220;Let me die with the Philistines!&#8221; He pushed hard<n id="1" /> and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Gideon said to God, &#8220;If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel,<n id="1" /> as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites.<n id="1" />

His concubine,<n id="1" /> who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.<n id="2" />

my father fought for you; he risked his life<n id="1" /> and delivered you from Midian&#8217;s power.<n id="2" />

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.

<p class="bodytext">God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.<n id="1" />