![2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bare not.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EOG0861-768x768.jpg "3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace")
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the
![5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, [Art] thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EOG0863-768x439.jpg "6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace")
And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out
So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands. Judges 11:1 – 11:40 1 Now Jephthah
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Judges 10:1 – 10:18
![24 That the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EOG0299-768x768.jpg "27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode [the grapes], and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace")
And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest
Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from
![1 Then Jerubbaal, who [is] Gideon, and all the people that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EOG0867-768x439.jpg "2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace")
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog
![3 And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EOG0875-768x768.jpg "5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace")
And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when