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The Book of Judges 8
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT)
Judges 8:1	And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What [is] this thing thou hast done to us not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?` and they strive with him severely;
Judges 8:2	and he saith unto them, `What have I done now like you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the harvest of Abi-Ezer?
Judges 8:3	Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?` Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.
Judges 8:4	And Gideon cometh in unto the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who [are] with him wearied, and pursuing,
Judges 8:5	and he saith to the men of Succoth, `Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who [are] at my feet, for they [are] wearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.`
Judges 8:6	And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread?`
Judges 8:7	And Gideon saith, `Therefore in Jehovah`s giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.`
Judges 8:8	And he goeth up thence [to] Penuel, and speaketh unto them thus; and the men of Penuel answer him as the men of Succoth answered.
Judges 8:9	And he speaketh also to the men of Penuel, saying, `In my turning back in peace, I break down this tower.`
Judges 8:10	And Zebah and Zalmunna [are] in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who are left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those falling [are] a hundred and twenty thousand men, drawing sword.
Judges 8:11	And Gideon goeth up the way of those who tabernacle in tents, on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smiteth the camp, and the camp was confident;
Judges 8:12	and Zebab and Zalmunna flee, and he pursueth after them, and captureth the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and all the camp he hath caused to tremble.
Judges 8:13	And Gideon son of Joash turneth back from the battle, at the going up of the sun,
Judges 8:14	and captureth a young man of the men of Succoth, and asketh him, and he describeth unto him the heads of Succoth, and its elders seventy and seven men.
Judges 8:15	And he cometh in unto the men of Succoth, and saith, `Lo Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye reproached me, saying, Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand that we give to thy men who [are] wearied bread?`
Judges 8:16	And he taketh the elders of the city, and the thorns of the wilderness, and the threshing instruments, and teacheth by them the men of Succoth,
Judges 8:17	and the tower of Penuel he hath broken down, and slayeth the men of the city.
Judges 8:18	And he saith unto Zebah and unto Zalmunna, `How the men whom ye slew in Tabor?` and they say, `As thou so they, one as the form of the king`s sons.`
Judges 8:19	And he saith, `My brethren sons of my mother they; Jehovah liveth, if ye had kept them alive I had not slain you.`
Judges 8:20	And he saith to Jether his first-born, `Rise, slay them;` and the young man hath not drawn his sword, for he hath been afraid, for he [is] yet a youth.
Judges 8:21	And Zebah saith also Zalmunna `Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man his might;` and Gideon riseth, and slayeth Zebah and Zalmunna, and taketh their round ornaments which [are] on the necks of their camels.
Judges 8:22	And the men of Israel say unto Gideon, `Rule over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son`s son, for thou hast saved us from the hand of Midian.`
Judges 8:23	And Gideon saith unto them, `I do not rule over you, nor doth my son rule over you; Jehovah doth rule over you.`
Judges 8:24	And Gideon saith unto them, `Let me ask of you a petition, and give ye to me each the ring of his prey, for they have rings of gold, for they [are] Ishmaelites.`
Judges 8:25	And they say, `We certainly give;` and they spread out the garment, and cast thither each the ring of his prey;
Judges 8:26	and the weight of the rings of gold which he asked is a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, apart from the round ornaments, and the drops, and the purple garments, which [are] on the kings of Midian, and apart from the chains which [are] on the necks of their camels,
Judges 8:27	and Gideon maketh it into an ephod, and setteth it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go a-whoring after it there, and it is to Gideon and to his house for a snare.
Judges 8:28	And Midian is humbled before the sons of Israel, and have not added to lift up their head; and the land resteth forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges 8:29	And Jerubbaal son of Joash goeth and dwelleth in his own house,
Judges 8:30	and to Gideon there have been seventy sons, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;
Judges 8:31	and his concubine, who [is] in Shechem, hath born to him even she a son, and he appointeth his name Abimelech.
Judges 8:32	And Gideon son of Joash dieth, in a good old age, and is buried in the burying-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrite.
Judges 8:33	And it cometh to pass, when Gideon [is] dead, that the sons of Israel turn back and go a-whoring after the Baalim, and set over them Baal-Berith for a god;
Judges 8:34	and the sons of Israel have not remembered Jehovah their God, who is delivering them out of the hand of all their enemies round about,
Judges 8:35	neither have they done kindness with the house of Jerubbaal Gideon according to all the good which he did with Israel.