Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

And that year they harassed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living. So the Levite went in.