gideon <JUG6 -11> And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat
under
an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the
Abiezrite: and his son {Gideon} threshed wheat by the winepress,
to
hide [it] from the Midianites.
gideon <JUG6 -13> And {Gideon} said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the
LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be]
all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not
the
LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsak
en us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
gideon <JUG6 -19> And {Gideon} went in, and made ready a kid, and
unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a
basket,
and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him
under
the oak, and presented [it].
gideon <JUG6 -22> And when {Gideon} perceived that he [was] an
angel
of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have
seen
an angel of the LORD face to face.
gideon <JUG6 -22> And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an
angel
of the LORD, {Gideon} said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have
seen an angel of the LORD face to face.
gideon <JUG6 -24> Then {Gideon} built an altar there unto the
LORD,
and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah
of
the Abiezrites.
gideon <JUG6 -27> Then {Gideon} took ten men of his servants, and
did as the LORD had said unto him: and [so] it was, because he
feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he
could not do [it] by day, that he did [it] by night.
gideon <JUG6 -29> And they said one to another, Who hath done
this
thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, {Gideon} the
son
of Joash hath done this thing.
gideon <JUG6 -34> But the spirit of the LORD came upon {Gideon},
and
he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
gideon <JUG6 -36> And {Gideon} said unto God, If thou wilt save
Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
gideon <JUG6 -39> And {Gideon} said unto God, Let not thine
anger be
hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I
pray
thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon
the
fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew
.
gideon <JUG7 -1> Then Jerubbaal, who [is] {Gideon}, and all the
people that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside
the
well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the
north
side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
gideon <JUG7 -2> And the LORD said unto {Gideon}, The people that
[are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into
their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying,
Mine
own hand hath saved me.
gideon <JUG7 -4> And the LORD said unto {Gideon}, The people
[are]
yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try
them
for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee,
This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; a
nd of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee,
the
same shall not go.
gideon <JUG7 -5> So he brought down the people unto the water:
and
the LORD said unto {Gideon}, Every one that lappeth of the water
with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to dri
nk.
gideon <JUG7 -7> And the LORD said unto {Gideon}, By the three
hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the
Midianites
into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto
his place.
gideon <JUG7 -13> And when {Gideon} was come, behold, [there
was] a
man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I
dreamed a
dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of
Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fel
l, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
gideon <JUG7 -14> And his fellow answered and said, This [is]
nothing else save the sword of {Gideon} the son of Joash, a man
of
Israel: [for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all
the
host.
gideon <JUG7 -15> And it was [so], when {Gideon} heard the
telling
of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped,
and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the
LORD
hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
gideon <JUG7 -18> When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that
[are]
with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the
camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of {Gideon}.
gideon <JUG7 -19> So {Gideon}, and the hundred men that [were]
with
him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the
middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew
the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their
hands.
gideon <JUG7 -20> And the three companies blew the trumpets, and
brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and
the
trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried,
The
sword of the LORD, and of {Gideon}.
gideon <JUG7 -24> And {Gideon} sent messengers throughout all
mount
Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take
before
them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of
Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters
unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
g
ideon <JUG7 -25> And they took two princes of the Midianites,
Oreb
and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they
slew
at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the
heads
of Oreb and Zeeb to {Gideon} on the other side Jord
an.
gideon <JUG8 -4> And {Gideon} came to Jordan, [and] passed over,
he,
and the three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet
pursuing
[them].
gideon <JUG8 -7> And {Gideon} said, Therefore when the LORD hath
delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear
your
flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
gideon <JUG8 -11> And {Gideon} went up by the way of them that
dwelt
in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host:
for
the host was secure.
gideon <JUG8 -13> And {Gideon} the son of Joash returned from
battle
before the sun [was up],
gideon <JUG8 -21> Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and
fall
upon us: for as the man [is, so is] his strength. And {Gideon}
arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments
that
[were] on their camels' necks.
gideon <JUG8 -22> Then the men of Israel said unto {Gideon}, Rule
thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for
thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
gideon <JUG8 -23> And {Gideon} said unto them, I will not rule
over
you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over
you.
gideon <JUG8 -24> And {Gideon} said unto them, I would desire a
request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of
his
prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they [were]
Ishmaelites.)
gideon <JUG8 -27> And {Gideon} made an ephod thereof, and put it
in
his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring
after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his
house.
gideon <JUG8 -27> And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in
his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring
after it: which thing became a snare unto {Gideon}, and to his
house.
gideon <JUG8 -28> Thus was Midian subdued before the children of
Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the
country
was in quietness forty years in the days of {Gideon}.
gideon <JUG8 -30> And {Gideon} had threescore and ten sons of his
body begotten: for he had many wives.
gideon <JUG8 -32> And {Gideon} the son of Joash died in a good
old
age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in
Ophrah
of the Abiezrites.
gideon <JUG8 -33> And it came to pass, as soon as {Gideon} was
dead,
that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring
after
Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
gideon <JUG8 -35> Neither showed they kindness to the house of
Jerubbaal, [namely], {Gideon}, according to all the goodness
which
he had showed unto Israel.
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