And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Pray, show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."

And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

But whenever the judge died, they turned back and behaved worse than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them; they did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

that by them I may test Israel, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not."

"Tell of it, you who ride on tawny asses, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.

And from there he went up to Penu'el, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penu'el answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abim'elech.

When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.

Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.

So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gib'e-ah, which belongs to Benjamin,

And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.