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But when the people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai , Adonai raised up a savior for the people of Isra'el; and he rescued them; this was ‘Otni'el, the son of Kalev's younger brother K'naz.

So the land had rest for forty years, until ‘Otni'el the son of K'naz died.

But when the people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai , Adonai raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, from the tribe of Binyamin, a left-handed man. The people of Isra'el appointed him to take their tribute to ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av.

But he himself, after reaching the quarries at Gilgal, went back and said, "King, I have a secret message for you." The king commanded silence, and all his attendants withdrew.

Ehud came to him; he was sitting alone by himself in his upstairs room, where it was cool. Ehud said: "I have a message from God for you." As the king arose from his seat,

The hilt too went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly, so that it came out behind.

Thus was Mo'av subdued that day under the power of Isra'el. Then the land had rest for eighty years.

The people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai , because he had 900 iron chariots, and for twenty years he cruelly oppressed the people of Isra'el.

She used to sit under D'vorah's Palm between Ramah and Beit-El, in the hills of Efrayim; and the people of Isra'el would come to her for judgment.

She sent for Barak the son of Avino‘am, from Kedesh in Naftali, and said to him: " Adonai has given you this order: ‘Go, march to Mount Tavor, and take with you 10,000 men from the people of Naftali and Z'vulun.

So here is Barak pursuing Sisra, and Ya‘el steps out to meet him and says, "Come, I will show you the man you are looking for." He goes into her tent; and there is Sisra, lying dead with the tent peg through his temple.

But why did you stay at the pens for the sheep, and listen to the shepherd's flute playing for the flocks? Concerning the divisions of Re'uven there were great searchings of heart.

"‘Curse Meroz!' said the angel of Adonai , ‘Curse the people living there with a bitter punishment for not coming to help Adonai , to help Adonai against the mighty warriors.'

He asked for water, and she gave him milk; In an elegant bowl she brought him curds.

‘Of course! They're collecting and dividing the spoil — a girl, two girls for every warrior, for Sisra booty of dyed clothing, a plunder of colorfully embroidered garments, two embroidered scarves for every soldier's neck.'

"May all your enemies perish like this, Adonai ; but may those who love him be like the sun going forth in its glory!" Then the land had rest for forty years.

But the people of Isra'el did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, so Adonai handed them over to Midyan for seven years.

They set up camp by them and destroyed the produce of the country all the way to ‘Azah; they left nothing for people to live on, no sheep, no oxen, no donkeys.

For they came up with their cattle and tents, and they came in as thick as locusts; both they and their camels were beyond numbering, and they came into the land to destroy it.

"Excuse me, sir," answered Gid‘on, "but if Adonai is with us, then why is all this happening to us? And where are all his miracles our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Didn't Adonai bring us up from Egypt?' For now Adonai has abandoned us and handed us over to Midyan."