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