1 Then the people of Ephraim said to Gideon, "Why didn’t you call us when you went to fight the Midianites? Why did you treat us like this?" They complained bitterly about it.
2 But he told them, "What I was able to do is nothing compared with what you have done. Even the little that you people of Ephraim did is worth more than what my whole clan has done. 3 Ps 83.11After all, through the power of God you killed the two Midianitechiefs, Oreband Zeeb. What have I done to compare with that?" When he said this, they were no longer so angry.
4 By this time Gideonand his three hundred men had come to the Jordan Riverand had crossed it. They were exhausted, but were still pursuing the enemy. 5 When they arrived at Sukkoth, he said to the men of the town, "Please give my men some loaves of bread. They are exhausted, and I am chasing Zebahand Zalmunna, the Midianitekings."
6 But the leaders of Sukkothsaid, "Why should we give your army any food? You haven’t captured Zebahand Zalmunnayet."
7 So Gideonsaid, "All right! When the Lordhas handed Zebahand Zalmunnaover to me, I will beat you with thorns and briers from the desert!" 8 Gideon went on to Penueland made the same request of the people there, but the men of Penuelgave the same answer as the men of Sukkoth. 9 So he said to them, "I am going to come back safe and sound, and when I do, I will tear this tower down!"
10 Zebahand Zalmunnawere at Karkorwith their army. Of the whole army of desert tribesmen, only about 15,000 were left; 120,000 soldiers had been killed. 11 Gideonwent on the road along the edge of the desert, east of Nobahand Jogbehah, and attacked the army by surprise. 12 The two Midianitekings, Zebahand Zalmunna, ran away, but he pursued them and captured them, and caused their whole army to panic.
13 When Gideonwas returning from the battle by way of Heres Pass, 14 he captured a young man from Sukkothand questioned him. The young man wrote down for Gideon the names of the seventy-seven leading men of Sukkoth. 15 Then Gideon went to the men of Sukkothand said, "Remember when you refused to help me? You said that you couldn’t give any food to my exhausted army because I hadn’t captured Zebahand Zalmunnayet. Well, here they are!" 16 He then took thorns and briers from the desert and used them to punish the leaders of Sukkoth. 17 He also tore down the tower at Penueland killed the men of that city.
18 Then Gideon asked Zebahand Zalmunna, "What about the men you killed at Tabor?"
They answered, "They looked like you—every one of them like the son of a king."
19 Gideon said, "They were my brothers, my own mother’s sons. I solemnly swear that if you had not killed them, I would not kill you." 20 Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, "Go ahead, kill them!" But the boy did not draw his sword. He hesitated, because he was still only a boy.
21 Then Zebahand Zalmunnasaid to Gideon, "Come on, kill us yourself. It takes a man to do a man’s job." So Gideonkilled them and took the ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
22 After that, the Israelites said to Gideon, "Be our ruler—you and your descendants after you. You have saved us from the Midianites."
23 Gideonanswered, "I will not be your ruler, nor will my son. The Lordwill be your ruler." 24 But he went on to say, "Let me ask one thing of you. Every one of you give me the earrings you took." (The Midianites, like other desert people, wore gold earrings.)
25 The people answered, "We’ll be glad to give them to you." They spread out a cloth, and everyone put on it the earrings that he had taken. 26 The gold earrings that Gideon got weighed over forty pounds, and this did not include the ornaments, necklaces, and purple clothes that the kings of Midianwore, nor the collars that were around the necks of their camels. 27 Gideonmade an idol from the gold and put it in his hometown, Ophrah. All the Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideonand his family.
28 So Midianwas defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideondied.
The Death of Gideon
29 Gideonwent back to his own home and lived there. 30 He had seventy sons, because he had many wives. 31 He also had a concubine in Shechem; she bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. 32 Gideonson of Joashdied at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, at Ophrah, the town of the clan of Abiezer.
33 After Gideon’s death the people of Israelwere unfaithful to God again and worshiped the Baals. They made Baal-of-the-Covenant their god, 34 and no longer served the Lordtheir God, who had saved them from all their enemies around them. 35 They were not grateful to the family of Gideonfor all the good that he had done for Israel.
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Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Penuel is the place named by Jacob when he said he saw God face to face. The tower of Penuel was torn down and the men of the city were killed; Jeroboam also built up Penuel (Genesis 32:30).
Penuel is the place named by Jacob when he said he saw God face to face. The tower of Penuel was torn down and the men of the city were killed; Jeroboam also built up Penuel (Genesis 32:30).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Succoth is the town whose leaders refused bread to Gideon, who was pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian; on his return, Gideon punished these leaders with desert thorns and briers (Judges 8:16).
Penuel is the place named by Jacob when he said he saw God face to face. The tower of Penuel was torn down and the men of the city were killed; Jeroboam also built up Penuel (Genesis 32:30).
Mount Tabor is the mountain where Barak went up with ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun at the Lord’s command given through Deborah, and from which he went down with them the day the Lord gave Sisera into his hands (Judges 4:14).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Shechem is a city in the hill country of Ephraim where Joshua made a covenant with the people, the citizens turned against Abimelech, and Israel gathered to make Rehoboam king (Joshua 24:25).
Abimelech, son of Gideon by a concubine in Shechem, killed seventy of his brothers to reign and died at Thebez when a woman threw a millstone on him (Judges 9:53).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).
Jacob, son of Isaac, bought the birthright from Esau, wrestled with God at Penuel, and received the name Israel; his twelve sons gave rise to the tribes (Genesis 32:28).
Significado: “One who takes by the heel (supplanter)”
Gideon, son of Joash, also called Jerubbaal, broke down the altar of Baal and, with three hundred men, delivered Israel from the Midianites; he refused to be king (Judges 7:7).