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Judges 7:4
Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go.

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Judges 7:7
And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

Judges 6:15
And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

Judges 6:17
So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me.

Judges 6:24
Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6:27
Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night.

Judges 6:34
But the spirit of the Lord came on Gideon; and at the sound of his horn all Abiezer came together after him.

Judges 6:36
Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said,

Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.

Judges 8:23
But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.

Judges 8:28
So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon.

Judges 8:29
And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went back to his house and was living there.

Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

Judges 8:31
And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

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Deuteronomy 7:4
For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

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Judges 8:1
And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.

Judges 8:2
And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

Judges 8:3
God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

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Judges 8:24
Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Judges 8:25
And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.

Judges 8:26
The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.

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1 Samuel 17:47
And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands.

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