So the people gathered their supplies and trumpets, and Gideon sent all the Israelites home, but kept the three hundred. Now Midian’s camp was below Gideon in the valley.

It was reported to Abimelech that all the leaders from the Tower of Shechem had gathered in one place.

The Ammonites called out their army and made camp in Gilead, while the Israelites gathered and set up their camp at Mizpah.

So Jephthah ran away from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Worthless men gathered around Jephthah and became his posse.

So Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought the Ephraimites. The Gileadites defeated the Ephraimites, because they had said, “You are fugitives from Ephraim! Gilead stands within Ephraim and Manasseh.”

Samson’s death

The rulers of the Philistines gathered together to make a great sacrifice to their god Dagon and to hold a celebration. They cheered, “Our god has handed us Samson our enemy!”