Judges Chapter 8

• Judges 8:1
  Judges.
• Judges 8:2
  The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharp...
• Judges 8:3
  He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
• Judges 8:4
  God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated towa...
• Judges 8:5
  Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
• Judges 8:6
  He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunn...
• Judges 8:7
  The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
• Judges 8:8
  Gideon said, “Therefore when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and...
• Judges 8:9
  He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
• Judges 8:10
  He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
• Judges 8:11
  Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of th...
• Judges 8:12
  Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
• Judges 8:13
  Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
• Judges 8:14
  Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
• Judges 8:15
  He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
• Judges 8:16
  He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in ...
• Judges 8:17
  He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
• Judges 8:18
  He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
• Judges 8:19
  Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the ...
• Judges 8:20
  He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
• Judges 8:21
  He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
• Judges 8:22
  Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took ...
• Judges 8:23
  Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
• Judges 8:24
  Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The LORD shall rule over you.”
• Judges 8:25
  Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were ...
• Judges 8:26
  They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
• Judges 8:27
  The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants...
• Judges 8:28
  Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon a...
• Judges 8:29
  So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
• Judges 8:30
  Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
• Judges 8:31
  Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
• Judges 8:32
  His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
• Judges 8:33
  Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
• Judges 8:34
  As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
• Judges 8:35
  The children of Israel didn’t remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
• Judges 8:36
  neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.