[It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Arise, go down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.

Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.