All the men in the city had been called together to go after them, and as they pursued Joshua, they kept getting farther away from the city.

The men of Shechem put men in ambush against Abimelech on the mountaintops, and they robbed everyone who passed their way. Abimelech was told about this.

So the Israelites put some soldiers in hiding around Gibeah.

So when the main army of the Israelites pulled back and regrouped at Baaltamar, the men surrounding Gibeah suddenly rushed out of their hiding places in the rocky country around the city.

and the Benjaminites realized they were defeated. The main body of the Israelite army had retreated from the Benjaminites because they were relying on the men that they had put in hiding around Gibeah.

He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt.

Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.

But don't listen to them, because there are more than forty men who will be hiding and waiting for him. They have taken a vow not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are now ready to do it and are waiting for your decision."

Wisdom does more for a person than ten rulers can do for a city.

I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.