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!

When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, &#8216;For the <sc>Lordsc> and for Gideon!&#8217;&#8221;p>

He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request.<n id="1" /> The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He said to Zebah and Zalmunna, &#8220;Describe for me<n id="1" /> the men you killed at Tabor.&#8221; They said, &#8220;They were like you. Each one looked like a king&#8217;s son.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith<n id="1" /> their god.

They did not treat<n id="1" /> the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.p>

All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar<n id="1" /> in Shechem.p>

But the olive tree said to them, &#8216;I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting<n id="1" /> bandits in<n id="2" /> the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.<n id="3" />p>

When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city&#8217;s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.

When the Ammonites attacked,<n id="1" /> the leaders<n id="2" /> of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back<n id="3" /> from the land of Tob.

Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, &#8220;But you hated me and made me leave<n id="1" /> my father&#8217;s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?&#8221;

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;

The woman ran at once and told her husband,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come quickly,<n id="2" /> the man who visited<n id="3" /> me the other day has appeared to me!&#8221;

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met<n id="1" /> the man, he said to him, &#8220;Are you the man who spoke to my wife?&#8221;<n id="2" /> He said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s spirit empowered<n id="1" /> him and he tore the lion<n id="2" /> in two with his bare hands<n id="3" /> as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.p>

The men of Judah said, &#8220;Why are you attacking<n id="1" /> us?&#8221; The Philistines<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us.&#8221;

Samson said to her, &#8220;If they tie me up with seven fresh<n id="1" /> bowstrings<n id="2" /> that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.&#8221;

He said to her, &#8220;If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used,<n id="1" /> I will become weak and be just like any other man.&#8221;

Samson said to the young man who held his hand, &#8220;Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple.<n id="1" /> Then I can lean on them.&#8221;