Judges 8:13 Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.

English Standard Version
Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

New American Standard Bible
Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

King James Bible
And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the Ascent of Heres.

International Standard Version
Then Joash's son Gideon returned from the battle along the Heres Ascent.

American Standard Version
And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And returning from the battle before the sun rising,

Darby Bible Translation
Then Gideon the son of Jo'ash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

Young's Literal Translation
And Gideon son of Joash turneth back from the battle, at the going up of the sun,

Cross References

Judges 8:12
And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.

Judges 8:14
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described to him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even three score and seventeen men.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:13-17 The active servants of the Lord meet with more dangerous opposition from false professors than from open enemies; but they must not care for the behaviour of those who are Israelites in name, but Midianites in heart. They must pursue the enemies of their souls, and of the cause of God, though they are ready to faint through inward conflicts and outward hardships. And they shall be enabled to persevere. The less men help, and the more they seek to hinder, the more will the Lord assist. Gideon's warning being slighted, the punishment was just. Many are taught with the briers and thorns of affliction, who would not learn otherwise.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. Gideon returned from battle before the sun was up—He seems to have returned by a nearer route to Succoth, for what is rendered in our version "before the sun was up," means "the heights of Heres, the sun-hills."