Judges 8:25-35
seventeen hundred <0505> [a thousand.]
Taking the shekel at half an ounce, the sum of the gold ear-rings was 73 lbs. 4oz. and worth about Å“3,300 sterling.
jewelry <05188> [collars. or, sweet jewels. purple.]
necklaces <06060> [chains.]
ephod <0646> [an ephod.]
Ophrah <06084> [Ophrah.]
prostituted <02181> [a whoring.]
snare <04170> [a snare.]
Midian <04080> [was Midian.]
forty years <0705 08141> [forty years.]
Jerub-Baal <03378> [Jerubbaal.]
home <01004> [in his own house.]
seventy <07657> [threescore.]
fathered <03409 03318> [of his body begotten. Heb. going out of his thigh. many wives.]
concubine <06370> [concubine.]
<07760> [called. Heb. set. Abimelech.]
Ophrah <06084> [Ophrah.]
Gideon <01439> [as soon.]
prostituted <02181> [went.]
Baal-Berith <01170> [Baal-berith.]
Literally, "the lord of the covenant."
remain <02142> [remembered.]
treat .................. done <06213> [shewed.]
Jerub-Baal <03378> [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.
