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Judges - ch 8 v 21 - 35

  1. Then Zebah and Zalmun'na said, "Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmun'na; and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.
  2. Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Mid'ian."
  3. Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you."
  4. And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ish'maelites.)
  5. And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil.
  6. And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Mid'ian, and besides the collars that were about the necks of their camels.
  7. And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
  8. So Mid'ian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
  9. Jerubba'al the son of Jo'ash went and dwelt in his own house.
  10. Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
  11. And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abim'elech.
  12. And Gideon the son of Jo'ash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Jo'ash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiez'rites.
  13. As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Ba'als, and made Ba'al-be'rith their god.
  14. And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side;
  15. and they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubba'al (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
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