He said to them,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Out of the one who eats came something to eat;p> <p class="poetry">out of the strong one came something sweet.&#8221;p> <p class="bodyblock">They could not solve the riddle for three days.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Ehud had left, Eglon&#8217;s<n id="1" /> servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, &#8220;He must be relieving himself<n id="2" /> in the well-ventilated inner room.&#8221;<n id="3" />

he took his men<n id="1" /> and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city,<n id="2" /> he attacked and struck them down.<n id="3" />

then whoever is the first to come through<n id="1" /> the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites &#8211; he<n id="2" /> will belong to the <sc>Lordsc> and<n id="3" /> I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.&#8221;

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.

She said to him, &#8220;My father, since<n id="1" /> you made an oath to the <sc>Lordsc>, do to me as you promised.<n id="2" /> After all, the <sc>Lordsc> vindicated you before<n id="3" /> your enemies, the Ammonites.&#8221;

She should not drink<n id="1" /> anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean.<n id="2" /> She should obey everything I commanded her to do.&#8221;