During the attack on Thebez, a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull (Judges 9:53). He told his armor-bearer to kill him so it would not be said a woman killed him, and the armor-bearer did so (Judges 9:54).

Ehud, a left-handed Benjamite, made a double-edged sword and strapped it to his right thigh (Judges 3:15–16). He gained a private audience with Eglon and stabbed him, then escaped while Eglon’s servants delayed outside (Judges 3:20–26).

Achsah asked her father Caleb for a blessing: springs of water to go with the land she received in the Negeb (Judges 1:14–15). Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs (Judges 1:15).

Gideon made an ephod from the gold earrings taken as spoil and put it in Ophrah (Judges 8:24–27). The text says all Israel played the prostitute after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his house (Judges 8:27).

God answered by listing past deliverances and saying Israel had forsaken him and served other gods (Judges 10:10–13). He said he would save them no more and told them to cry out to the gods they had chosen (Judges 10:13–14).

The messenger told Manoah’s wife not to drink wine or strong drink and not to eat anything unclean, because the child would be a Nazirite to God from the womb (Judges 13:4–5). He also said no razor would come on his head (Judges 13:5).

In Judges 12, “Shibboleth” is used as a word-test at the Jordan fords to identify Ephraimites who could not pronounce it correctly (Judges 12:5–6). Those who said “Sibboleth” were recognized and killed, and the passage reports a large number of Ephraimites fell there (Judges 12:6).

Jotham tells a story where trees seek a king, and the productive trees refuse while the bramble agrees to rule (Judges 9:7–15). He applies it as a warning about Shechem’s choice of Abimelech and speaks a curse-like verdict of mutual destruction if they acted in wrongdoing (Judges 9:16–20).

Judges summarizes a pattern: Israel does evil, enemies oppress them, they cry out, and God raises a judge to save them (Judges 2:11–19). After the judge dies, the people turn back and become more corrupt than before (Judges 2:19).

Jephthah vowed that if God gave him victory, whatever came out of the doors of his house to meet him on his return would be the LORD’s, and he would offer it up as a burnt offering (Judges 11:30–31). When he returned, his only child, his daughter, came out to meet him, and the narrative describes him carrying out his vow after she mourned her virginity (Judges 11:34–40).

Gideon asked for a sign using a fleece: first that the fleece alone would be wet with dew while the ground was dry (Judges 6:36–38). Then he asked for the reverse—dry fleece with dew on the ground—and God did so (Judges 6:39–40).

Judges 1 names Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan as not driving out certain Canaanite inhabitants (Judges 1:27–36). Benjamin is also said not to drive out the Jebusites in Jerusalem (Judges 1:21).

Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, killed Sisera after he fled to her tent (Judges 4:17–21). She drove a tent peg through his temple while he slept, and later showed Barak where Sisera lay dead (Judges 4:21–22).

Abimelech was Gideon’s son who sought power in Shechem and persuaded its leaders to support him (Judges 9:1–3). He hired men, killed his seventy brothers on one stone, and the leaders of Shechem made him king (Judges 9:4–6).

Adoni-bezek was a defeated king captured by Judah. They cut off his thumbs and big toes, and he said he had done the same to seventy kings, viewing it as payback (Judges 1:5–7). He was brought to Jerusalem, where he died (Judges 1:7).

Jephthah was a mighty warrior from Gilead, but he was the son of a prostitute (Judges 11:1). His brothers drove him out, saying he would not have an inheritance in their father’s house, and he fled to the land of Tob (Judges 11:2–3).

Othniel son of Kenaz is presented as the first judge who delivered Israel (Judges 3:9–11). The text says the Spirit of the LORD came upon him and the land had rest for forty years (Judges 3:10–11).

Deborah is introduced as a prophetess who was judging Israel at that time (Judges 4:4–5). Barak is the commander Deborah summons to lead troops against Sisera, with God’s promise of victory (Judges 4:6–7).

God said the army was too many, so Israel might boast, saying their own hand saved them (Judges 7:2). After sending many home and then selecting by how they drank water, the number was reduced to three hundred (Judges 7:3–7).

Judges lists multiple tribes that did not drive out the inhabitants of their territories and instead lived among them or put them to forced labor (Judges 1:27–36). The chapter also notes Judah could not drive out some valley inhabitants because they had iron chariots (Judges 1:19).

Judges explains that God did not drive out the remaining nations because Israel broke the covenant and did not obey God’s voice (Judges 2:20–23). These nations would be left to test Israel and to see whether they would keep God’s way (Judges 2:22).

In the song, Meroz is cursed because its inhabitants did not come to help in the battle, described as not helping the LORD against the mighty (Judges 5:23). The curse is spoken by the angel of the LORD within the song (Judges 5:23).

Gideon was beating out wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites (Judges 6:11). Judges describes Midian’s raids that took Israel’s produce and left them impoverished (Judges 6:1–6).