He said to them, &#8220;Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim&#8217;s leftover grapes<n id="1" /> are better quality than Abiezer&#8217;s harvest!<n id="2" />

Manoah said, &#8220;Now, when your announcement comes true,<n id="1" /> how should the child be raised and what should he do?&#8221;<n id="2" />

When the Danites returned to their tribe<n id="1" /> in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen<n id="2" /> asked them, &#8220;How did it go?&#8221;<n id="3" />

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites<n id="1" /> turned around and said to Micah, &#8220;Why have you gathered together?&#8221;

The leaders<n id="1" /> of the assembly said, &#8220;How can we find wives for those who are left?<n id="2" /> After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

<p class="bodytext">One time Acsah<n id="1" /> came and charmed her father<n id="2" /> so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, &#8220;What would you like?&#8221;

but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.&#8217;<n id="1" /> But you have disobeyed me.<n id="2" /> Why would you do such a thing?<n id="3" />

and listen to what they are saying. Then you will be brave<n id="1" /> and attack the camp.&#8221; So he went down with Purah his servant to where the sentries were guarding the camp.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, &#8220;Why have<n id="1" /> you come against me to attack my land?&#8221;

When these men broke into Micah&#8217;s house and stole<n id="1" /> the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;

He said, &#8220;You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, &#8216;What do you want?&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe<n id="1" /> of Benjamin, saying, &#8220;How could such a wicked thing take place?<n id="2" />

How can we find wives for those who are left?<n id="1" /> After all, we took an oath in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s name not to give them our daughters as wives.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The Ephraimites said to him, &#8220;Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us<n id="1" /> when you went to fight the Midianites!&#8221; They argued vehemently with him.

&#8220;Tell<n id="1" /> all the leaders of Shechem this: &#8216;Why would you want<n id="2" /> to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal&#8217;s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Manoah prayed to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God<n id="2" /> to visit<n id="3" /> us again, so he can teach<n id="4" /> us how we should raise<n id="5" /> the child who will be born.&#8221;

On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?p> <p class="poetry">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;p> <p class="bodyblock">He said to them,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you would not have solved my riddle!&#8221;p>

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish<n id="1" /> said to their kinsmen,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.&#8221;

He and all his men<n id="1" /> went up on Mount Zalmon. He<n id="2" /> took an ax<n id="3" /> in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it<n id="4" /> on his shoulder and said to his men, &#8220;Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!&#8221;<n id="5" />