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So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
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“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.
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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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“So may all your enemies perish, Lord! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years.
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Gideon’s Death
Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.
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that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.’” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
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He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years.
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The Birth of Samson
Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
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“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
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He replied, “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.” For three days they could not give the answer.
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She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
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Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.
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The Danites Settle in Laish
In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
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A Levite and His Concubine
In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
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His father-in-law, the woman’s father, prevailed on him to stay; so he remained with him three days, eating and drinking, and sleeping there.
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And the Israelites inquired of the Lord. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
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In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.
