| Location | Relation | Former half | Latter half |
| 1-16 | Responsibility of seventy persons' death | 1:7"Seventy kings, with their thumbs and big toes cut off, used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so has God repaid me." | 9:56 Thus did God requite the evil Abimelech had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers. |
| 2-15 | Disobeying the LORD after death of leader | 2:8 Joshua, son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, was a hundred and ten years old when he died; 2:9 and they buried him within the borders of his heritage at Timnath-heres in the mountain region of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. 2:10 But once the rest of that generation were gathered to their fathers, and a later generation arose that did not know the LORD, or what he had done for Israel, | 8:33 But after Gideon was dead, the Israelites again abandoned themselves to the Baals, making Baal of Berith their god |
| 3-14 | Peace of forty years | 3:11 The land then was at rest for forty years, | 8:28 Thus was Midian brought into subjection by the Israelites; no longer did they hold their heads high. And the land had rest for forty years, during the lifetime of Gideon. |
| 4-13 | Killing a foreign king | 3:21 and then Ehud with his left hand drew the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon's belly. | 8:21So Gideon stepped forward and killed Zebah and Zalmunna. He also took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels. |
| 5-12 | The person who rescue Israel | 3:31 He, too, rescued Israel | 8:2 What have I accomplished now in comparison with you? (8:2) |
| 6-11 | The LORD confuses enemies | 4:15 And the LORD put Sisera and all his chariots and all his forces to rout before Barak. Sisera himself dismounted from his chariot and fled on foot.(4:15) | 7:22 But the three hundred men kept blowing the horns, and throughout the camp the LORD set the sword of one against another. The army fled as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zarethan, near the border of Abel-meholah at Tabbath.(7:22) |
| 7-10 | People of Israel gather | 5:14 From Ephraim, princes were in the valley; behind you was Benjamin, among your troops. From Machir came down commanders, from Zebulun wielders of the marshal's staff.(5:14) | 6:35 He sent messengers, too, throughout Manasseh, which also obeyed his summons; through Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, likewise, he sent messengers and these tribes advanced to meet the others.(6:35) |
| 8-9 | An altar, naming | 6:24 So Gideon built there an altar to the LORD and called it Yahweh-shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.(6:24) | 6:32 So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, because of the words, "Let Baal take action against him, since he destroyed his altar."(6:32) |
| Location | Relation | Former half | Latter half |
| 16-31 | War within Israel | War with Abimelech@(9:25-57) | War with Benjaminites@(20:1-48) |
| 17-30 | Dwelling on mountain region of Ephraim | 10:1a resident of Shamir in the mountain region of Ephraim. | 17:1 There was a man in the mountain region of Ephraim whose name was Micah. |
| 18-29 | Judging Israel | 10:3 Jair the Gileadite came after him and judged Israel twenty-two years. | 16:31He had judged Israel for twenty years. |
| 18-29 | Buried | 10:5 Jair died and was buried in Kamon. | 16:31 All his family and kinsmen went down and bore him up for burial in the grave of his father Manoah between Zorah and Eshtaol. |
| 19-28 | The LORD leaves and returns | 10:15 But the Israelites said to the LORD, "We have sinned. Do to us whatever you please. Only save us this day." 10:16 And they cast out the foreign gods from their midst and served the LORD, so that he grieved over the misery of Israel. | 16:19 She had him sleep on her lap, and called for a man who shaved off his seven locks of hair. Then she began to mistreat him, for his strength had left him. 16:20 When she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!", and he woke from his sleep, he thought he could make good his escape as he had done time and again, for he did not realize that the LORD had left him. 16:21 But the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters, and he was put to grinding in the prison. 16:22 But the hair of his head began to grow as soon as it was shaved off. |
| 20-27 | People go to get him back | 11:5 When this occurred the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. | 15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cavern in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are our rulers? Why, then, have you done this to us?" |
| 20-27 | The spirit of the LORD comes upon | 11:29 The spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. | 15:14 When he reached Lehi, and the Philistines came shouting to meet him, the spirit of the LORD came upon him: the ropes around his arms became as flax that is consumed by fire and his bonds melted away from his hands. |
| 20-27 | Defeating foreign country | 11:33 so that he inflicted a severe defeat on them, from Aroer to the approach of Minnith (twenty cities in all) and as far as Abel-keramin. Thus were the Ammonites brought into subjection by the Israelites. | 15:15 Near him was the fresh jawbone of an ass; he reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand men. |
| 21-26 | Marriage | 12:9 He had thirty sons. He also had thirty daughters married outside the family, and he brought in as wives for his sons thirty young women from outside the family. (12:9) | 15:2 I thought it certain you wished to repudiate her; so I gave her to your best man (15:2) |
| 22-25 | Ruler of Israel | 12:11 After him the Zebulunite Elon judged Israel. When he had judged Israel for ten years,(12:11) | 14:4 at this time the Philistines dominated Israel (14:4) |
| 23-24 | 40 | 12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy saddle-asses. After having judged Israel for eight years,(12:14) | 13:1 The Israelites again offended the LORD, who therefore delivered them into the power of the Philistines for forty years.(13:1) |