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The Ephraimites said to him, |Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us when you went to fight the Midianites!| They argued vehemently with him.
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He said to them, |Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim's leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer's harvest!
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It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?| When he said this, they calmed down.
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Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites.
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He said to the men of Succoth, |Give some loaves of bread to the men who are following me, because they are exhausted. I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.|
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The officials of Succoth said, |You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your army?|
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Gideon said, |Since you will not help, after the LORD hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh your skin with desert thorns and briers.|
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He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.
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He also threatened the men of Penuel, warning, |When I return victoriously, I will tear down this tower.|
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Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.
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Gideon went up the road of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army.
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When Zebah and Zalmunna ran away, Gideon chased them and captured the two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna. He had surprised their entire army.
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Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the pass of Heres.
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He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth's officials and city leaders--seventy-seven men in all.
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He approached the men of Succoth and said, |Look what I have! Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying, 'You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?'|
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He seized the leaders of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then |threshed| the men of Succoth with them.
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He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city's men.
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He said to Zebah and Zalmunna, |Describe for me the men you killed at Tabor.| They said, |They were like you. Each one looked like a king's son.|
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He said, |They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, as surely as the LORD is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.|
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He ordered Jether his firstborn son, |Come on! Kill them!| But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, because he was still young.
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Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, |Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.| So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.
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The men of Israel said to Gideon, |Rule over us--you, your son, and your grandson. For you have delivered us from Midian's power.|
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Gideon said to them, |I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you.|
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Gideon continued, |I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.| (The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
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They said, |We are happy to give you earrings.| So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
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The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.
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Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.
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The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites' fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon's time.
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Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down.
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Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.
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His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.
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Gideon son of Joash died at a very old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.
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The Israelites did not remain true to the LORD their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.
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They did not treat the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.
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