And 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.
the men
Judges 12:1-6 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, …
2 Samuel 19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to …
Job 5:2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …
James 4:5,6 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells …
why, etc. Heb. What thins is this thou hast done unto us?
sharply. Heb. strongly
And 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 Abiezer?
what
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs …
Galatians 5:14,15 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall …
Philippians 2:2,3 Fulfill you my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, …
James 1:19,20 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show …
is not the. That is, the Ephraimites have performed more important services than Gideon and his men had achieved. Abiezer
Judges 6:11,34 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was …
God 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.
God
Judges 7:24,25 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, …
Psalm 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither …
Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your …
Psalm 118:14-16 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation…
John 4:37 And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.
Romans 12:3,6 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among …
Romans 15:18,19 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ …
Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness …
then
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules …
Proverbs 25:11,15 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver…
anger. Heb. spirit
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
faint
1 Samuel 14:28,29,31,32 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father straightly …
1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed behind…
2 Corinthians 4:8,9,16 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall …
Hebrews 12:1-4 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, …
And 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.
Succoth
Genesis 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made …
Psalm 60:6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, …
loaves
Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he …
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when …
1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles …
2 Samuel 17:28,29 Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, …
3 John 1:6-8 Which have borne witness of your charity before the church: whom …
And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
Judges 5:23 Curse you Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse you bitterly the …
Genesis 25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according …
Genesis 37:25,28 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and …
1 Samuel 25:10,11 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that …
2 Kings 14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying…
Proverbs 18:23 The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.
Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
And 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.
And 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.
And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Now 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.
Karkor. If this were the name of a place, it is no where else mentioned. Some contend that karkor signifies rest; and the Vulgate renders it rested. This seems the most likely; for it is said that Gideon 'smote the host: for the host was secure.' Children
Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the …
fell an hundred, etc. or, an hundred and twenty thousand, every one drawing a sword
Judges 7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's …
Judges 20:2,15,17,25,35,46 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, …
2 Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, …
2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there …
2 Chronicles 28:6,8 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty …
Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the …
And 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.
Nobah. Nobah took its name from an Israelite who conquered it; and is said by Eusebius to have been, in his time, a forsaken place eight miles south from Heshbon. Jogbehah was probably near it.
Numbers 32:35,42 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah…
secure
Judges 18:27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which …
1 Samuel 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. …
1 Samuel 30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
took
Joshua 10:16-18,22-25 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah…
Job 12:16-21 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his…
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor …
Psalm 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes …
Amos 2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
Revelation 6:15,16 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
Revelation 19:19-21 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, …
discomfited. Heb. terrified
And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
before. The words should most probably be rendered from the ascent of Chares; which is the reading of the LXX. Syriac, Arabic, and Houbigant.
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
And 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?
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
the elders
Judges 8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD has delivered Zebah and …
Proverbs 10:13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a …
Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Ezra 2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two …
thorns
Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than …
taught. Heb. made to know. Instead of wyyoda, Houbigant, Le Clerc, and others read wyyadosh, and he tore or threshed; and this is not only agreeable to what Gideon threatened, but is supported by the LXX. Vulgate, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. The Hebrew text might easily have been corrupted simply by the change of shin, into ayin, letters very similar to each other.
And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Then 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.
And 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.
And 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.
Then 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.
Then 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.
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
I will
Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge…
Judges 10:18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man …
Judges 11:9-11 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again …
Luke 22:24-27 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted …
2 Corinthians 1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of …
1 Peter 5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
the Lord
1 Samuel 8:6,7 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to …
1 Samuel 10:19 And you have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out …
1 Samuel 12:12 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came …
Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is …
Isaiah 63:19 We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name.
And 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.)
give me
Genesis 24:22,53 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man …
Exodus 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and …
Exodus 32:3 And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their …
1 Peter 3:3-5 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the …
because
Genesis 16:10,11 And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply your seed …
Genesis 25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according …
Genesis 37:25,28 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and …
1 Samuel 25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have …
1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that …
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And 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.
a thousand. Taking the shekel at half an ounce, the sum of the gold ear-rings was
Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel …
Jeremiah 10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from …
Ezekiel 27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which you spread …
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
John 19:2,5 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, …
Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked …
Revelation 18:12,16 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of …
chains
Judges 8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us: for as the …
And 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.
an ephod
Judges 17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, …
Judges 18:14,17 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, …
Exodus 28:6-12 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of …
1 Samuel 23:9,10 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; …
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this …
Ophrah
Judges 8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried …
Judges 6:11,24 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was …
Deuteronomy 12:5 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
a whoring
Exodus 23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against …
Psalm 73:27 For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed …
Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with …
Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am …
Hosea 4:12-14 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to …
a snare
Judges 8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children …
Deuteronomy 7:16 And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall …
Thus 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.
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
threescore
Judges 9:2,5 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether …
Judges 10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty donkey colts, and they …
Judges 12:9,14 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, …
Genesis 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of …
Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy …
2 Kings 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and …
of his body begotten. Heb. going out of his thigh. many wives
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall …
Genesis 7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives …
Deuteronomy 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not …
2 Samuel 3:2-5 And to David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, …
2 Samuel 5:13-16 And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after …
1 Kings 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: …
Malachi 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And …
Matthew 19:5-8 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and …
Ephesians 5:31-33 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall …
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
And 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 Abiezrites.
died in
Genesis 15:15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in …
Genesis 25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old …
Joshua 24:29,30 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, …
Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn …
Job 42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Ophrah
Judges 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in …
Judges 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: …
And 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 Baalberith their god.
as soon
Judges 2:7-10,17,19 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the …
Joshua 24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days …
2 Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all …
2 Chronicles 24:17,18 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made …
went
Judges 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in …
Judges 2:17 And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went a whoring …
Exodus 34:15,16 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they …
Jeremiah 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that …
Baal-berith. Literally, the lord of the covenant
Judges 9:4,46 And they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the …
And 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:
Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
shewed
Judges 9:5,16-19 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers …
Ecclesiastes 9:14,15 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a …
Jerubbaal. Rather, Jerubbaal Gideon; as we say, Simon Peter; or call a person by his Christian and surname. Gideon was a mighty man of valour, a true patriot, evidently disinterested and void of ambition. He loved his country, and hazarded his life for it; but refused the kingdom, when offered to him and his heirs. The act of making the ephod was totally wrong; yet, probably it was done with no reprehensible design.
