They struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”

While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

then they would say to him, “Say now, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. Thus there fell at that time 42,000 of Ephraim.

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear things like this at this time.”

However, his father and mother did not know that it was of the Lord, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.”

Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.

Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead; yet they were not enough for them.

The sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.