8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. 1 The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time. 2 8:29 Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down. 3 8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. 4
1 tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”
2 tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”
3 tn Heb “went and lived in his house.”
5 tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.