So God split open the basin<n id="1" /> at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength<n id="2" /> was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring<n id="3" /> En Hakkore.<n id="4" /> It remains in Lehi to this very day.

<t /><p class="bodytext">That night the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Take the bull from your father&#8217;s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old.<n id="1" /> Pull down your father&#8217;s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left.<n id="1" /> He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all.<n id="2" /> He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">They were having a good time,<n id="1" /> when suddenly<n id="2" /> some men of the city, some good-for-nothings,<n id="3" /> surrounded the house and kept beating<n id="4" /> on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, &#8220;Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.&#8221;<n id="5" />

When the man got ready to leave<n id="1" /> with his concubine and his servant,<n id="2" /> his father-in-law, the girl&#8217;s father, said to him, &#8220;Look! The day is almost over!<n id="3" /> Stay another night! Since the day is over,<n id="4" /> stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.&#8221;<n id="5" />

Micah said to him, &#8220;Stay with me. Become my adviser<n id="1" /> and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.

<p class="bodytext">The people regretted what had happened to<n id="1" /> Benjamin because the <sc>Lordsc> had weakened<n id="2" /> the Israelite tribes.

The<n id="1" /> remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.<n id="2" />

He divided the three hundred men into three units.<n id="1" /> He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them.<n id="2" />

He ordered Jether his firstborn son, &#8220;Come on!<n id="1" /> Kill them!&#8221; But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword,<n id="2" /> because he was still young.

Now Barak chased the chariots and the army all the way to Harosheth Haggoyim. Sisera&#8217;s whole army died<n id="1" /> by the edge of the sword; not even one survived!<n id="2" />p>

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites<n id="1" /> &#8211; all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

<p class="poetry">The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Naphtali charged on to the battlefields.<n id="2" />p>

Micah said, &#8220;Now I know God will make me rich,<n id="1" /> because I have this Levite as my priest.&#8221;p>

At that time I also warned you,<n id="1" /> &#8216;If you disobey,<n id="2" /> I will not drive out the Canaanites<n id="3" /> before you. They will ensnare you<n id="4" /> and their gods will lure you away.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Finally he told her his secret.<n id="1" /> He said to her, &#8220;My hair has never been cut,<n id="2" /> for I have been dedicated to God<n id="3" /> from the time I was conceived.<n id="4" /> If my head<n id="5" /> were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.&#8221;

But his wife said to him, &#8220;If the <sc>Lordsc> wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us.<n id="1" /> He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.&#8221;p>

He seized the leaders<n id="1" /> of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then &#8220;threshed&#8221; the men of Succoth with them.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.