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Judges 8 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2 - And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:6 - But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:8 - So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - And Gideon went up by the way used by the people living in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and made an attack on the army when they had no thought of danger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - Then Gideon, the son of Joash, went back from the fight:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - And taking prisoner a young man of the people of Succoth, he got from him, in answer to his questions, a list of the chiefs of Succoth and the responsible men, seventy-seven men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - So he came to the men of Succoth and said, Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, on account of whom you made sport of me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand, that we are to give bread to your army who are overcome with weariness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16 - Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 - Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, Where are the men whom you put to death at Tabor? And they gave answer, As you are, so were they; every one of them was like a king's son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, Up! Put them to death. But the boy did not take out his sword, fearing because he was still a boy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25 - And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.

Forty Years of Peace

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:29 - And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went back to his house and was living there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - And Gideon, the son of Joash, came to his end when he was very old, and his body was put in the resting-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:34 - And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - And they were not kind to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, in reward for all the good he had done to Israel.
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