Judges 8:29-35

8:29

Jerub-Baal <03378> [Jerubbaal.]

home <01004> [in his own house.]

8:30

seventy <07657> [threescore.]

fathered <03409 03318> [of his body begotten. Heb. going out of his thigh. many wives.]

8:31

concubine <06370> [concubine.]

<07760> [called. Heb. set. Abimelech.]

8:32

died <04191 02896> [died in.]

Ophrah <06084> [Ophrah.]

8:33

Gideon <01439> [as soon.]

prostituted <02181> [went.]

Baal-Berith <01170> [Baal-berith.]

Literally, "the lord of the covenant."

8:34

remain <02142> [remembered.]

8:35

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.