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JUDG 8:1 And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What `isthis thing thou hast done to us -- not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?and they strive with him severely; JUDG 8:2 and he saith unto them, `What have I done now like you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the harvest of Abi-Ezer? JUDG 8:3 Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing. JUDG 8:4 And Gideon cometh in unto the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who `arewith him -- wearied, and pursuing, JUDG 8:5 and he saith to the men of Succoth, `Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who `areat my feet, for they `arewearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.' JUDG 8:6 And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread? JUDG 8:7 And Gideon saith, `Therefore -- in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand -- I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments. JUDG 8:8 And he goeth up thence `toPenuel, and speaketh unto them thus; and the men of Penuel answer him as the men of Succoth answered. JUDG 8:9 And he speaketh also to the men of Penuel, saying, `In my turning back in peace, I break down this tower. JUDG 8:10 And Zebah and Zalmunna `arein Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who are left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those falling `area hundred and twenty thousand men, drawing sword. JUDG 8:11 And Gideon goeth up the way of those who tabernacle in tents, on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smiteth the camp, and the camp was confident; JUDG 8:12 and Zebab and Zalmunna flee, and he pursueth after them, and captureth the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and all the camp he hath caused to tremble. JUDG 8:13 And Gideon son of Joash turneth back from the battle, at the going up of the sun, JUDG 8:14 and captureth a young man of the men of Succoth, and asketh him, and he describeth unto him the heads of Succoth, and its elders -- seventy and seven men. JUDG 8:15 And he cometh in unto the men of Succoth, and saith, `Lo Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye reproached me, saying, Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand that we give to thy men who `arewearied bread?' JUDG 8:16 And he taketh the elders of the city, and the thorns of the wilderness, and the threshing instruments, and teacheth by them the men of Succoth, JUDG 8:17 and the tower of Penuel he hath broken down, and slayeth the men of the city. JUDG 8:18 And he saith unto Zebah and unto Zalmunna, `How -- the men whom ye slew in Tabor?and they say, `As thou -- so they, one -- as the form of the king's sons. JUDG 8:19 And he saith, `My brethren -- sons of my mother -- they; Jehovah liveth, if ye had kept them alive -- I had not slain you. JUDG 8:20 And he saith to Jether his first-born, `Rise, slay them;and the young man hath not drawn his sword, for he hath been afraid, for he `isyet a youth. JUDG 8:21 And Zebah saith -- also Zalmunna -- `Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man -- his might;and Gideon riseth, and slayeth Zebah and Zalmunna, and taketh their round ornaments which `areon the necks of their camels. JUDG 8:22 And the men of Israel say unto Gideon, `Rule over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, for thou hast saved us from the hand of Midian. JUDG 8:23 And Gideon saith unto them, `I do not rule over you, nor doth my son rule over you; Jehovah doth rule over you. JUDG 8:24 And Gideon saith unto them, `Let me ask of you a petition, and give ye to me each the ring of his prey, for they have rings of gold, for they `areIshmaelites.' JUDG 8:25 And they say, `We certainly give;and they spread out the garment, and cast thither each the ring of his prey; JUDG 8:26 and the weight of the rings of gold which he asked is a thousand and seven hundred `shekelsof gold, apart from the round ornaments, and the drops, and the purple garments, which `areon the kings of Midian, and apart from the chains which `areon the necks of their camels, JUDG 8:27 and Gideon maketh it into an ephod, and setteth it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go a-whoring after it there, and it is to Gideon and to his house for a snare. JUDG 8:28 And Midian is humbled before the sons of Israel, and have not added to lift up their head; and the land resteth forty years in the days of Gideon. JUDG 8:29 And Jerubbaal son of Joash goeth and dwelleth in his own house, JUDG 8:30 and to Gideon there have been seventy sons, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives; JUDG 8:31 and his concubine, who `isin Shechem, hath born to him -- even she -- a son, and he appointeth his name Abimelech. JUDG 8:32 And Gideon son of Joash dieth, in a good old age, and is buried in the burying-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrite. JUDG 8:33 And it cometh to pass, when Gideon `isdead, that the sons of Israel turn back and go a-whoring after the Baalim, and set over them Baal-Berith for a god; JUDG 8:34 and the sons of Israel have not remembered Jehovah their God, who is delivering them out of the hand of all their enemies round about, JUDG 8:35 neither have they done kindness with the house of Jerubbaal -- Gideon -- according to all the good which he did with Israel.