Ehud escaped while the servants waited. He crossed over the Jordan near the carved images and reached Seirah.

Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

She reached for a tent peg,
her right hand, for a workman’s mallet.
Then she hammered Sisera—
she crushed his head;
she shattered and pierced his temple.

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”

He told them, “Follow me, because the Lord has handed over your enemies, the Moabites, to you.” So they followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

“Please speak in the presence of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that 70 men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you or that one man rule over you?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”

The trees set out
to anoint a king over themselves.
They said to the olive tree, “Reign over us.”

Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord handed them over to him.

When I saw that you weren’t going to deliver me, I took my life in my own hands and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”