So Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba); and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

Capture of Other Cities

From there [the tribe of] Judah went against the inhabitants of Debir (the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher [city of books and scribes]).

The house of Joseph spied out Bethel (now the name of the city was formerly Luz).

The man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and named it Luz, which is its name to this day.

So they named that place Bochim (weepers); and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.

Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and named it The Lord is Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah, of the Abiezrites.

Therefore on that day he named Gideon Jerubbaal, meaning, “Let Baal plead,” because he had torn down his altar.

He captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And the youth wrote down for him [the names of] the leaders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.

And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelech.

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was infertile and had no children.

Then the woman went and told her husband, saying, “A Man of God came to me and his appearance was like the appearance of the Angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask Him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that when your words come true, we may honor you?”

But the Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful (miraculous)?”

So the woman [in due time] gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the boy grew and the Lord blessed him.

When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi (hill of the jawbone).

So God split open the hollow place that was at Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his spirit (strength) returned and he was revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore (spring which is calling), which is at Lehi to this day.

After this he fell in love with a [Philistine] woman [living] in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Micah’s Idolatry

There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

He returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and she said, “I had truly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son (in his name) to make an image [carved from wood and plated with silver] and a cast image [of solid silver]; so now, I will return it to you.”

They named the city Dan, after Dan their forefather who was born to Israel (Jacob); however, the original name of the city was Laish.