that LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel. And he said to them, Thus says LORD, the 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 to him, Why have thou done thus to us, that thou did not call us when thou went to fight with Midian? And they chided with him sharply.

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying 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 sons of Ammon,

And he said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.