Discovery Box| (0.99940892116183) | Jdg 8:27 |
| Gideon used all this to make<n id="1" /> an ephod,<n id="2" /> which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites<n id="3" /> prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it<n id="4" /> there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.p> |
| (0.9893643153527) | Jdg 8:13 |
| <p class="bodytext">Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the pass<n id="1" /> of Heres. |
| (0.8480265560166) | Jdg 6:34 |
| The <sc>Lordsc>’s spirit took control of<n id="1" /> Gideon. He blew a trumpet,<n id="2" /> summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.8480265560166) | Jdg 6:36 |
| <p class="bodytext">Gideon said to God, “If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel,<n id="1" /> as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.8480265560166) | Jdg 8:4 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.8480265560166) | Jdg 8:30 |
| Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.79952709543568) | Jdg 6:22 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Gideon realized<n id="1" /> that it was the <sc>Lordsc>’s messenger, he<n id="2" /> said, “Oh no!<n id="3" /> Master, <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="4" /> I have seen the <sc>Lordsc>’s messenger face to face!” |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 6:24 |
| Gideon built an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> there, and named it “The <sc>Lordsc> is on friendly terms with me.”<n id="1" /> To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.p> |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 6:29 |
| They said to one another,<n id="1" /> “Who did this?”<n id="2" /> They investigated the matter thoroughly<n id="3" /> and concluded<n id="4" /> that Gideon son of Joash had done it. |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 7:18 |
| When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the <sc>Lordsc> and for Gideon!’”p> |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 7:20 |
| All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right.<n id="1" /> Then they yelled, “A sword for the <sc>Lordsc> and for Gideon!” |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:7 |
| Gideon said, “Since you will not help,<n id="1" /> after the <sc>Lordsc> hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh<n id="2" /> your skin<n id="3" /> with<n id="4" /> desert thorns and briers.” |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:11 |
| Gideon went up the road of the nomads<n id="1" /> east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:22 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us – you, your son, and your grandson. For you have delivered us from Midian’s power.”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:23 |
| Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The <sc>Lordsc> will rule over you.” |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:24 |
| Gideon continued,<n id="1" /> “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.”<n id="2" /> (The Midianites<n id="3" /> had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:28 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken.<n id="1" /> The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:32 |
| Gideon son of Joash died at a very<n id="1" /> old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.p> |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:33 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith<n id="1" /> their god. |
| (0.7066887966805) | Jdg 8:35 |
| They did not treat<n id="1" /> the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.p> |
