Now Deborah, a prophetess, ¹  wife of Lappidoth, was ²  leading ³  Israel at that time.

Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” ¹ 

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites ¹  – all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ¹  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ² 

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property. ¹ 

Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?

then they said to him, “Say ‘Shibboleth!’” ¹  If he said, “Sibboleth” (and could not pronounce the word ²  correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead.