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That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.
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Shamgar
After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.
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Deborah
Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead.
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Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.
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Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.
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She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.
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She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.
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On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
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And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
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“When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves— praise the Lord!
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“Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! I, even I, will sing to the Lord; I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.
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The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel.
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God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.
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My heart is with Israel’s princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the Lord!
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the voice of the singers at the watering places. They recite the victories of the Lord, the victories of his villagers in Israel. “Then the people of the Lord went down to the city gates.
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Gideon
The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.
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Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.
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Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
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They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.
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Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.
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When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian,
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he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
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“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
