Judges 8

¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 19:41Job 5:2Jas 4:5-6Judg 12:1-6Eccl 4:4

²And 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 Abi–ezer? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:19-201 Cor 13:4-7Gal 5:14-15Jas 3:13-18Judg 6:11Judg 6:34Phil 2:2-3

³God 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 15:1Judg 7:24-25John 4:37Phil 2:3Prov 16:32Prov 25:11Prov 25:15Ps 115:1Ps 118:14-16Ps 44:3

⁴And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 4:16Gal 6:91 Sam 14:28-291 Sam 30:10Heb 12:1-42 Cor 4:8-91 Sam 14:31-32Judg 7:25

⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 33:17Ps 60:61 Sam 25:182 Sam 17:28-293 John 1:6-8Deut 23:4Gen 14:18

⁶And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 20:11Phil 2:211 Sam 25:10-112 Kgs 14:9Gen 25:13Gen 37:25Gen 37:28Judg 5:23Judg 8:15Prov 18:23

⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 7:15

⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:25Gen 32:30-31

⁹And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 22:27-28Judg 8:17

¹⁰Now 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 7:122 Kgs 3:26Isa 9:4Judg 20:15Judg 20:17Judg 20:2Judg 20:25Judg 20:35Judg 20:462 Chr 13:17

¹¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 32:35Num 32:421 Thess 5:3Judg 18:271 Sam 15:321 Sam 30:16

¹²And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 83:11Amos 2:14Job 12:16-21Job 34:19Josh 10:16-18Josh 10:22-25Rev 19:19-21Rev 6:15-16

¹³And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:11-15Judg 1:24-25

¹⁵And 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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 8:6-7

¹⁶And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 8:7Prov 10:13Prov 19:29Ezra 2:6Mic 7:4

¹⁷And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 8:91 Kgs 12:25

¹⁸Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 4:6Jude 1:16Ps 12:2Ps 89:12

¹⁹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁰And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 15:33Josh 10:24Ps 149:9

²¹Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 83:11Isa 3:18Judg 8:261 Sam 31:31 Sam 31:5Judg 9:54Ps 83:1Rev 9:6

²²Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 6:151 Sam 12:121 Sam 8:5Judg 9:8-15

²³And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 33:221 Sam 12:121 Sam 10:192 Cor 1:241 Pet 5:31 Sam 8:6-7Judg 10:18Judg 11:9-11Judg 2:18Isa 63:19

²⁴And 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.) Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 25:131 Pet 3:3-5Gen 37:25Gen 37:281 Kgs 20:111 Sam 25:11Exod 12:35Exod 32:3Gen 16:10-11Gen 24:22

²⁵And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:15Jer 10:9John 19:2John 19:5Rev 18:12Rev 18:16Ezek 27:7Rev 17:4Luke 16:19

²⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 106:39Deut 7:16Judg 17:5Judg 18:14Judg 18:17Exod 23:33Judg 6:241 Sam 23:9-10Deut 12:5Exod 28:6-35

²⁸Thus 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 5:31Judg 3:11Isa 10:26Isa 9:4Judg 3:30Ps 83:9-12

²⁹And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 12:11Judg 6:32Judg 7:1Neh 5:14-15

³⁰And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 9:2Judg 9:51 Kgs 11:3Deut 17:172 Kgs 10:12 Sam 3:2-52 Sam 5:13-16Eph 5:31-33Exod 1:5Gen 2:24

³¹And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 16:15Gen 20:2Gen 22:24Judg 9:1-5Judg 9:18

³²And 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 Abi–ezrites. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 25:8Gen 15:15Job 42:17Job 5:26Judg 6:24Josh 24:29-30Judg 8:27

³³And 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 Baal–berith their god. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 9:4Judg 2:19Judg 9:46Judg 2:17Judg 8:272 Chr 24:17-18Exod 34:15-16Jer 3:92 Kgs 12:2Josh 24:31

³⁴And 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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 78:42Ps 106:21Ps 78:11Deut 4:9Eccl 12:1Jer 2:32Judg 3:7Ps 106:18

³⁵Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 9:14-15Judg 9:16-19Judg 9:5