Now it came about in those days, when athere was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah....
aIn those days there was no king of Israel; and bin those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel....
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife awith a young goat, and said, "I will go in to my wife in her room." But her father did not let him enter....
Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed to Zaphon and asaid to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you."...
Now after Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, aarose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim....
And aAbimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother's father, saying,...
Then the men of Ephraim said to him, "aWhat is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they contended with him vigorously....
Then aJerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them by the hill of bMoreh in the valley....
