that the LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel, and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;

and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: 'Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,

He said to them, "Thus and so has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest."