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? (8:15)

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

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

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 (8:18)

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 (8:19)

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 (8:20)

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 (8:21)

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 (8:22)

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

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.) (8:24)

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

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 (8:26)

And Gideon made an 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 (8:27)

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 (8:28)

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

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

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

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 (8:32)

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 (8:33)

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: (8:34)

Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel (8:35)

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