<p class="bodytext">Then Samson&#8217;s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage.<n id="1" /> Samson hosted a party<n id="2" /> there, for this was customary for bridegrooms<n id="3" /> to do.

But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky.<n id="1" />

So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches<n id="1" /> against the stronghold and set fire to it.<n id="2" /> All the people<n id="3" /> of the Tower of Shechem died &#8211; about a thousand men and women.p>

They said, &#8220;We are happy to give you earrings.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So they<n id="2" /> spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

<p class="poetry">Wake up, wake up, Deborah!p> <p class="poetry">Wake up, wake up, sing a song!p> <p class="poetry">Get up, Barak!p> <p class="poetry">Capture your prisoners of war,<n id="1" /> son of Abinoam!p>

He<n id="1" /> moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.p>

<p class="poetry">God chose new leaders,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">then fighters appeared in the city gates;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">among forty military units<n id="4" /> in Israel.p>

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.

The <sc>Lordsc> did as he asked.<n id="1" /> When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s angelic<n id="1" /> messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, &#8220;You<n id="2" /> are infertile and childless,<n id="3" /> but you will conceive and have a son.

When he got home,<n id="1" /> he told his father and mother, &#8220;A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye.<n id="2" /> Now get her for my wife.&#8221;

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">When the Israelites cried out for help to the <sc>Lordsc>, he<n id="1" /> raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man.<n id="2" /> The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.<n id="3" />

Samson went and captured three hundred jackals<n id="1" /> and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.<n id="2" />

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;

Gideon son of Joash died at a very<n id="1" /> old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.p>

He struck them down and defeated them.<n id="1" /> Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.p>

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other.<n id="1" /> She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground<n id="2" /> while he was asleep from exhaustion,<n id="3" /> and he died.

<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" />

They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah,<n id="1" /> and annihilated<n id="2" /> them all the way to a spot east of Geba.<n id="3" />