So the Israelites marched toward ¹  the Benjaminites the next day.

The next day the Shechemites ¹  came out to the field. When Abimelech heard about it, ² 

The Israelites got up the next morning and moved ¹  against Gibeah.

The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace. ¹ 

The Lord did as he asked. ¹  When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl. ² 

The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ¹  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw ¹  the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

When a leader died, the next generation ¹  would again ²  act more wickedly than the previous one. ³  They would follow after other gods, worshiping them ⁴  and bowing down to them. They did not give up ⁵  their practices or their stubborn ways.

Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ¹  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ²  The Midianites ³  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Abimelech moved on ¹  to Thebez; he besieged and captured it. ² 

“So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ ¹ 

Then Israel ¹  went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; ²  they did not go through Moabite territory (the Arnon was Moab’s border).