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

And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why hast thou treated us thus, that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? and they chid with him sharply.

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they raised 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 to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

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

And he smote them from Aroer even till thou comest to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to 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 to him, why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

And he said to them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

Thus they inclosed the Benjaminites on all sides, and chased them, and trod them down with ease over against Gibeah towards the sun-rising.