Samson then said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;With the jawbone of a donkeyp> <p class="poetry">I have left them in heaps;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">with the jawbone of a donkeyp> <p class="poetry">I have struck down a thousand men!&#8221;p>

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;He hired me and I became his priest.&#8221;

The priest said to them, &#8220;Go with confidence.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> will be with you on your mission.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

He said to his servant,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come on, we will go into one of the other towns<n id="2" /> and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.&#8221;

But he went back<n id="1" /> once he reached<n id="2" /> the carved images<n id="3" /> at Gilgal. He said to Eglon,<n id="4" /> &#8220;I have a secret message for you, O king.&#8221; Eglon<n id="5" /> said, &#8220;Be quiet!&#8221;<n id="6" /> All his attendants left.

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" />

But his father and mother said to him, &#8220;Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our<n id="1" /> people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me,<n id="3" /> because she is the right one for me.&#8221;<n id="4" />

The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites.<n id="2" /> Then we<n id="3" /> will go with you into your allotted land.&#8221; So the men of Simeon went with them.p>

Caleb said, &#8220;To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.&#8221;

<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;

Barak said to her, &#8220;If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go.&#8221;

He said to her, &#8220;Give me a little water to drink, because I&#8217;m thirsty.&#8221; She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

He said to her, &#8220;Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you, &#8216;Is there a man here?&#8217; say &#8216;No.&#8217;&#8221;

Then the <sc>Lordsc> himself<n id="1" /> turned to him and said, &#8220;You have the strength.<n id="2" /> Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites!<n id="3" /> Have I not sent you?&#8221;

Gideon<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;But Lord,<n id="2" /> how<n id="3" /> can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Gideon<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;If you really are pleased with me,<n id="2" /> then give me<n id="3" /> a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

Do not leave this place until I come back<n id="1" /> with a gift<n id="2" /> and present it to you.&#8221; The <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;I will stay here until you come back.&#8221;p>

God&#8217;s messenger said to him, &#8220;Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock,<n id="1" /> and pour out the broth.&#8221; Gideon did as instructed.<n id="2" />

He said to them, &#8220;Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely!<n id="1" /> I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

Gideon said, &#8220;Since you will not help,<n id="1" /> after the <sc>Lordsc> hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh<n id="2" /> your skin<n id="3" /> with<n id="4" /> desert thorns and briers.&#8221;