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.
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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.
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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.
2 Chronicles 20:25
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.
Exodus 3:22
For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians.
Isaiah 9:4
For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.
Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
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Exodus 32:2
Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me.
Exodus 32:4
And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 35:4
Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.
Job 42:11
And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
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Judges 5:2
Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.
Nehemiah 11:2
And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.
Psalms 110:3
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
2 Corinthians 8:3
For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts,
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.
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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 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.
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 7:9
The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.
Judges 7:16
Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.
Judges 7:17
And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.
Judges 7:18
At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.
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 8:22
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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Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:
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