She reached out one hand for the tent peg, and her other for the workman's mallet. Then she struck Sisera, smashing his head, shattering and piercing his temple.

He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

But Gideon told them, "I won't rule over you and my son won't rule over you. The LORD will rule you."

"Ask all the "lords" of Shechem, "What's better for you? That 70 men, each of them Jerubbaal's sons, rule over you? Or that one man rule over you?' Keep in mind that I'm like your own close relative."