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8Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, "Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian?" And they criticized him sharply.
2But he answered them, "What have I accomplished1 compared to you? Aren't the gleanings of Ephraim's grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?
3God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?" At this, their resentment2 against him subsided3.
4Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted4 yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it.
5He said to the men of Succoth, "Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
6But the officials of Succoth said, "Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?"
7Then Gideon replied, "Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers."
8From there he went up to Peniel and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Succoth had.
9So he said to the men of Peniel, "When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower."
10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.
11Gideon went up by the route of the nomads5 east of Nobah and Jogbehah and fell upon the unsuspecting army.
12Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.
13Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.
14He caught a young man of Succoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Succoth, the elders of the town.
15Then Gideon came and said to the men of Succoth, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted6 me by saying, 'Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?' "
16He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Succoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.
17He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.
18Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?" "Men like you," they answered, "each one with the bearing of a prince."
19Gideon replied, "Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you."
20Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, "Kill them!" But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.
21Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Come, do it yourself. 'As is the man, so is his strength.' " So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments7 off their camels' necks.
22The Israelites said to Gideon, "Rule over us-you, your son and your grandson-because you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."
23But Gideon told them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you."
24And he said, "I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring8 from your share of the plunder9." (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings10.)
25They answered, "We'll be glad to give them." So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
26The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels' necks.
27Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare11 to Gideon and his family.
28Thus Midian was subdued12 before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land enjoyed peace forty years.
29Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live.
30He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.
31His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelech.
32Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god and
34did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
35They also failed to show kindness to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for them.
2But he answered them, "What have I accomplished1 compared to you? Aren't the gleanings of Ephraim's grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?
3God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?" At this, their resentment2 against him subsided3.
4Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted4 yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it.
5He said to the men of Succoth, "Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
6But the officials of Succoth said, "Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?"
7Then Gideon replied, "Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers."
8From there he went up to Peniel and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Succoth had.
9So he said to the men of Peniel, "When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower."
10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.
11Gideon went up by the route of the nomads5 east of Nobah and Jogbehah and fell upon the unsuspecting army.
12Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.
13Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.
14He caught a young man of Succoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Succoth, the elders of the town.
15Then Gideon came and said to the men of Succoth, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted6 me by saying, 'Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?' "
16He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Succoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.
17He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.
18Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?" "Men like you," they answered, "each one with the bearing of a prince."
19Gideon replied, "Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you."
20Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, "Kill them!" But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.
21Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Come, do it yourself. 'As is the man, so is his strength.' " So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments7 off their camels' necks.
22The Israelites said to Gideon, "Rule over us-you, your son and your grandson-because you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."
23But Gideon told them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you."
24And he said, "I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring8 from your share of the plunder9." (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings10.)
25They answered, "We'll be glad to give them." So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
26The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels' necks.
27Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare11 to Gideon and his family.
28Thus Midian was subdued12 before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land enjoyed peace forty years.
29Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live.
30He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.
31His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelech.
32Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god and
34did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
35They also failed to show kindness to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for them.
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subsided
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earring
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plunder
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earrings
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snare
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