¹⁵ Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.^(A)

¹⁰ One of you routs a thousand,^(A) because the Lord your God fights for you,^(B) just as he promised.

⁸ Five^(A) of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.^(B)

Shamgar

³¹ After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath,^(A) who struck down six hundred^(B) Philistines^(C) with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.

²⁷ But God chose^(A) the foolish^(B) things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not^(C)—to nullify the things that are,

⁴⁹ Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

⁵⁰ So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling^(A) and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

¹⁴ In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.

⁶ Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised^(A) men. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. Nothing^(B) can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many^(C) or by few.^(D)”

¹⁶ Dividing the three hundred men^(A) into three companies,^(B) he placed trumpets^(C) and empty jars^(D) in the hands of all of them, with torches^(E) inside.

²¹ But Jael,^(A) Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep,^(B) exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.^(C)