Chapter 8:
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Judges 8
8:1 And
the men of Ephraim said unto him,
a 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.
(
a) They began to object, because he had the
glory of the victory.
8:2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in
comparison of
b you? [Is] not the
c
gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
(
b) Who have slain two princes, Oreb and Zeeb.
(
c) This last act of the whole tribe is more
famous, than the whole enterprise of one man of one family.
8:5 And he
said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you,
d
loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am
pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
(
d) Or, some small portion.
8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the
e
hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto
thine army?
(
e) Because you have overcome a handful, do you
think to have overcome the whole?
8:9 And he
spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again
f
in peace, I will break down this tower.
(
f) Having gotten the victory.
8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were]
g
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.
(
g) A city east of Jordan.
8:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that
dwelt in
h tents on the east of Nobah
and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
(
h) He went by the wilderness where the Arabians
dwelt in tents.
8:13 And Gideon the son of
Joash returned from battle
i before the
sun [was up],
(
i) Some read, the sun being yet high.
8:19
And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the
k
sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not
slay you.
(
k) We all came from the same womb: therefore I
will be revenged.
8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna
said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for
l
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.
(
l) Meaning, that they would be freed from their
pain at once, or else have a valiant man put them to death.
8:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule
thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy
m
son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
(
m) That is, thy posterity.
8:24 And Gideon said unto
them,
n 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.)
(
n) His intent was to show himself thankful for
this victory by restoring religion, which because it was not according to
God's command, turned to their destruction.
8:27
And Gideon made an
o ephod thereof, and
put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring
after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
(
o) That is, such things as pertained to the use
of the tabernacle. See ephod, (
Exodus
28:4,6;
Judges
17:5;
1 Samuel
2:18;
2 Samuel
6:14).
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
p
Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
(
p) A city belonging to the family of the Ezrites.
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
q Baalberith their god.
(
q) That is, Baal, to whom they had bound
themselves by covenant.
8:35 Neither
r
shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to
all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
(
r) They were unmindful of God and unkind to him,
by whom they had received so great a benefit.
Chapter 8:
| Darby
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Joshua Ruth
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalm
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Matthew
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Luke
John
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Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
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Ephesians
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1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
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2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
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