That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, who said unto them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why have you served us thus, that you called us not, when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they did argue with him sharply.

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

And said unto him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

And he crushed them from Aroer, even till you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why ask you thus after my name, seeing it is wonderful?

And he said unto them, Thus and thus deals Micah with me, and has hired me, and I am his priest.

Thus they surrounded the Benjamites, and chased them, and trod them down with ease opposite Gibeah toward the east.