Daily Reading

Judges 3:7-8:35

3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and
he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of
Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served
Chushanrishathaim eight years.

3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the
LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who
delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's
younger brother.

3:10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged
Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered
Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his
hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.

3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of
Kenaz died.

3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of
the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab
against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the
LORD.

3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek,
and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm
trees.

3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab
eighteen years.

3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the
LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a
Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel
sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

3:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit
length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right
thigh.

3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and
Eglon was a very fat man.

3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent
away the people that bare the present.

3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were
by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king:
who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from
him.

3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer
parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have
a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from
his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat
closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out
of his belly; and the dirt came out.

3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors
of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw
that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they
said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he
opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key,
and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down
dead on the earth.

3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the
quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a
trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel
went down with him from the mount, and he before them.

3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath
delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they
went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab,
and suffered not a man to pass over.

3:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men,
all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.

3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And
the land had rest fourscore years.

3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of
the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also
delivered Israel.

4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of
the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of
Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was
Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had
nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily
oppressed the children of Israel.

4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged
Israel at that time.

4:5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah
and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up
to her for judgment.

4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of
Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and
take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and
of the children of Zebulun?

4:7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
4:8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I
will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding
the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for
the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And
Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he
went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up
with him.

4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab
the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the
Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which
is by Kedesh.

4:12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was
gone up to mount Tabor.

4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine
hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with
him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.

4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in
which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not
the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount
Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots,
and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so
that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on
his feet.

4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host,
unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell
upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael
the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between
Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn
in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in
unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

4:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water
to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk,
and gave him drink, and covered him.

4:20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and
it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and
say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an
hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the
nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he
was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom
thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera
lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before
the children of Israel.

4:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and
prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had
destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,
saying,

5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly offered themselves.

5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will
sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of
Israel.

5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out
of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens
dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai
from before the LORD God of Israel.

5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of
Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked
through byways.

5:7 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there
a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered
themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in
judgment, and walk by the way.

5:11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the
places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the
righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward
the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the
people of the LORD go down to the gates.

5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise,
Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

5:13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the
nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over
the mighty.

5:14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek;
after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down
governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the
writer.

5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even
Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley.
For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of
heart.

5:16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the
bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there
were great searchings of heart.

5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in
ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his
breaches.

5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their
lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of
Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain
of money.

5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera.

5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river,
the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the
pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye
bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the
help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite
be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought
forth butter in a lordly dish.

5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the
workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she
smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through
his temples.

5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he
bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried
through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming?
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to
herself,

5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to
every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers
colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers
colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of
them that take the spoil?

5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them
that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
And the land had rest forty years.

6:1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven
years.

6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and
because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the
dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

6:3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites
came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even
they came up against them;

6:4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase
of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance
for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they
came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their
camels were without number: and they entered into the land to
destroy it.

6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the
Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
6:8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel,
which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I
brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the
house of bondage;

6:9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out
from before you, and gave you their land;

6:10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not
obeyed my voice.

6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak
which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the
Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress,
to hide it from the Midianites.

6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto
him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with
us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his
miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD
bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and
delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy
might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the
Midianites: have not I sent thee?

6:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save
Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the
least in my father's house.

6:16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and
thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy
sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

6:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and
bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said,
I will tarry until thou come again.

6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened
cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and
he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under
the oak, and presented it.

6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the
unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out
the broth. And he did so.

6:21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff
that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the
unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and
consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of
the LORD departed out of his sight.

6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the
LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an
angel of the LORD face to face.

6:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not:
thou shalt not die.

6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called
it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites.

6:25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock
of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy
father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

6:26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of
this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock,
and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which
thou shalt cut down.

6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the
LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his
father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not
do it by day, that he did it by night.

6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,
behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut
down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon
the altar that was built.

6:29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And
when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of
Joash hath done this thing.

6:30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy
son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of
Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.

6:31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye
plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him,
let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be
a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down
his altar.

6:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let
Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.

6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children
of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched
in the valley of Jezreel.

6:34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a
trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.

6:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also
was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and
unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

6:36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine
hand, as thou hast said,

6:37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if
the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the
earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by
mine hand, as thou hast said.

6:38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and
thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the
fleece, a bowl full of water.

6:39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot
against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I
pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry
only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece
only, and there was dew on all the ground.

7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that
were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of
Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north
side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with
thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their
hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine
own hand hath saved me.

7:3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people,
saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and
depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the
people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten
thousand.

7:4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too
many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for
thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee,
This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of
whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the
same shall not go.

7:5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD
said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his
tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

7:6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to
their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the
people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.
7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their
trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto
his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of
Midian was beneath him in the valley.

7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered
it into thine hand.

7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy
servant down to the host:

7:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall
thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went
he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed
men that were in the host.

7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children
of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for
multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand
by the sea side for multitude.

7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that
told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a
dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of
Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and
overturned it, that the tent lay along.

7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else
save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel:
for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the
host.

7:15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the
dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and
returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD
hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three
companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty
pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

7:17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and,
behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be
that, as I do, so shall ye do.

7:18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me,
then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp,
and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came
unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle
watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the
pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the
trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried,
The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

7:21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp:
and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set
every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the
host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to
the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

7:23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of
Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and
pursued after the Midianites.

7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim,
saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them
the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of
Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto
Bethbarah and Jordan.

7:25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb;
and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at
the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the
heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

8:1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served
us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight
with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.

8:2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of
you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than
the vintage of Abiezer?

8:3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian,
Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you?
Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

8:4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the
three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing
them.

8:5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you,
loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be
faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of
Midian.

8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah
and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto
thine army?

8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8:8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them
likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of
Succoth had answered him.

8:9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I
come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts
with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of
all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an
hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

8:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents
on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the
host was secure.

8:12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them,
and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and
discomfited all the host.

8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the
sun was up,

8:14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired
of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and
the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.

8:15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah
and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the
hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should
give bread unto thy men that are weary?

8:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the
wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of
Succoth.

8:17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of
the city.

8:18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men
were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou
art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a
king.

8:19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my
mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I
would not slay you.

8:20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them.
But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he
was yet a youth.

8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us:
for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and
slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that
were on their camels' necks.

8:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us,
both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast
delivered us from the hand of Midian.

8:23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you,
neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over
you.

8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you,
that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For
they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they
spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings
of his prey.

8:26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was
a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside
ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the
kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their
camels' necks.

8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city,
even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after

8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so
that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in
quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
house.

8:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body
begotten: for he had many wives.

8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him
a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was
buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites.

8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after
Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their
God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their
enemies on every side:

8:35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had
shewed unto Israel.



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