Judges 8:23
Good News Translation
Gideon answered, "I will not be your ruler, nor will my son. The LORD will be your ruler."

New Revised Standard Version
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you.”

Contemporary English Version
"No," Gideon replied, "I won't be your king, and my son won't be king either. Only the LORD is your ruler.

New American Bible
But Gideon answered them, “I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you. The LORD must rule over you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.

I will

Judges 2:18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.

Judges 10:18 And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us shall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Galaad.

Judges 11:9-11 Jephte also said to them: If you be come to me sincerely, that I should fight for you against the children of Ammon, and the Lord shall deliver them into my hand, shall I be your prince? . . .

Luke 22:24-27 And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:24 0

1 Peter 5:3 Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

the Lord

1 Samuel 8:6,7 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord. . . .

1 Samuel 10:19 But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

1 Samuel 12:12 But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: whereas the Lord your God was your king.

Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

Isaiah 63:19 We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.

Context
Gideon's Ephod
22And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son's son: because thou hast delivered us from the hand of Madian. 23And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.24And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets.…
Cross References
Judges 8:22
And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son's son: because thou hast delivered us from the hand of Madian.

1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.

1 Samuel 10:19
But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

1 Samuel 12:12
But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: whereas the Lord your God was your king.

Psalm 10:16
The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.

Psalm 149:2
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.

Judges 8:22
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