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Chapter 8
And
the
men
of
Ephraim
said
vnto
him,
Why
hast
thou
serued
vs
thus,
that
thou
calledst
vs
not
when
thou
wentest
to
fight
with
the
Midianites?
And
they
did
chide
with
him
sharpely.
2
And
he
said
vnto
them,
What
haue
I
done
now
in
comparison
of
you?
Is
not
the
gleaning
of
the
grapes
of
Ephraim
better
then
the
vintage
of
Abiezer?
3
God
hath
deliuered
into
your
hands
the
princes
of
Midian,
Oreb
and
Zeeb:
and
what
was
I
able
to
doe
in
comparison
of
you?
then
their
anger
was
abated
toward
him,
when
he
had
said
that.
4
And
Gideon
came
to
Iordan,
and
passed
ouer,
hee,
and
the
three
hundred
men
that
were
with
him,
faint,
yet
pursuing
them.
5
And
he
said
vnto
the
men
of
Succoth,
Giue,
I
pray
you,
loaues
of
bread
vnto
the
people
that
follow
me,
for
they
bee
faint,
and
I
am
pursuing
after
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
kings
of
Midian.
6
And
the
princes
of
Succoth
said,
Are
the
hands
of
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
now
in
thine
hands,
that
wee
should
giue
bread
vnto
thine
armie?
7
And
Gideon
said,
Therfore
when
the
Lord
hath
deliuered
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
into
mine
hand,
then
I
wil
teare
your
flesh
with
the
thornes
of
the
wildernesse,
and
with
briers.
8
And
he
went
vp
thence
to
Penuel,
and
spake
vnto
them
likewise:
and
the
men
of
Penuel
answered
him,
as
the
men
of
Succoth
had
answered
him.
9
And
he
spake
also
vnto
the
men
of
Penuel,
saying,
When
I
come
againe
in
peace,
I
will
breake
downe
this
towre.
10
Now
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
were
in
Karkor,
and
their
hostes
with
them,
about
fifteene
thousand
men,
all
that
were
left
of
all
the
hosts
of
the
children
of
the
East:
for
there
fell
an
hundred
and
twentie
thousand
men
that
drew
sword.
11
And
Gideon
went
vp
by
the
way
of
them
that
dwelt
in
tents,
on
the
East
of
Nobah,
and
Iogbehah,
and
smote
the
host:
for
the
host
was
secure.
12
And
when
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
fled,
he
pursued
after
them,
and
took
the
two
kings
of
Midian,
Zebah,
and
Zalmunna,
&
discomfited
all
the
host.
13
And
Gideon
the
sonne
of
Ioash
returned
from
battel
before
the
Sunne
was
vp,
14
And
caught
a
yong
man
of
the
men
of
Succoth,
and
enquired
of
him:
and
he
described
vnto
him
the
princes
of
Succoth
and
the
elders
thereof,
euen
threescore
and
seuenteene
men.
15
And
he
came
vnto
the
men
of
Succoth,
and
said,
Behold
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
with
whom
ye
did
vpbraid
me,
saying,
Are
the
handes
of
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
now
in
thine
hand,
that
we
should
giue
bread
vnto
thy
men
that
are
wearie?
16
And
hee
tooke
the
Elders
of
the
citie,
and
thornes
of
the
wildernes,
and
briers,
and
with
them
hee
taught
the
men
of
Succoth.
17
And
he
beat
downe
the
towre
of
Penuel,
and
slew
the
men
of
the
citie.
18
Then
said
he
vnto
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
What
maner
of
men
were
they
whom
ye
slew
at
Tabor?
And
they
answered,
As
thou
art,
so
were
they,
ech
one
resembled
the
children
of
a
king.
19
And
hee
said,
They
were
my
brethren,
euen
the
sonnes
of
my
mother:
as
the
Lord
liueth,
if
yee
had
saued
them
aliue,
I
would
not
slay
you.
20
And
he
said
vnto
Iether
his
first
borne,
Up,
and
slay
them:
but
the
youth
drew
not
his
sword:
for
he
feared,
because
he
was
yet
a
youth.
21
Then
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
said,
Rise
thou,
and
fall
vpon
vs:
for
as
the
man
is,
so
is
his
strength.
And
Gideon
arose,
and
slewe
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
&
tooke
away
the
ornaments
that
were
on
their
camels
neckes.
22
Then
the
men
of
Israel
saide
vnto
Gideon,
Rule
thou
ouer
vs,
both
thou,
and
thy
sonne,
&
thy
sonnes
sonne
also:
for
thou
hast
deliuered
vs
from
the
hand
of
Midian.
23
And
Gideon
said
vnto
them,
I
will
not
rule
ouer
you,
neither
shall
my
sonne
rule
ouer
you:
the
Lord
shall
rule
ouer
you.
24
And
Gideon
said
vnto
them,
I
would
desire
a
request
of
you,
that
you
would
giue
me
euery
man
the
earerings
of
his
pray.
For
they
had
golden
eare-rings,
because
they
were
Ishmaelites.
25
And
they
answered,
We
will
willingly
giue
them.
And
they
spread
a
garment,
and
did
cast
therein,
euery
man
the
earerings
of
his
pray.
26
And
the
weight
of
the
golden
eare-rings
that
hee
requested,
was
a
thousand
and
seuen
hundred
shekels
of
gold,
beside
ornaments,
and
collars,
&
purple
raiment
that
was
on
the
kings
of
Midian,
and
beside
the
chaines
that
were
about
their
camels
necks.
27
And
Gideon
made
an
Ephod
thereof,
and
put
it
in
his
citie,
euen
in
Ophrah:
and
all
Israel
went
thither
a
whoring
after
it;
which
thing
became
a
snare
vnto
Gideon,
and
to
his
house.
28
Thus
was
Midian
subdued
before
the
children
of
Israel;
so
that
they
lifted
vp
their
heads
no
more:
and
the
countrey
was
in
quietnesse
fourtie
yeeres,
in
the
dayes
of
Gideon.
29
And
Ierubbaal
the
sonne
of
Ioash
went
&
dwelt
in
his
owne
house.
30
And
Gideon
had
threescore
and
ten
sonnes
of
his
body
begotten:
for
he
had
many
wiues.
31
And
his
concubine
that
was
in
Shechem,
shee
also
bare
him
a
sonne,
whose
name
he
called
Abimelech.
32
And
Gideon
the
sonne
of
Ioash
died,
in
a
good
olde
age,
and
was
buried
in
the
sepulchre
of
Ioash
his
father,
in
Ophrah
of
the
Abi-Ezrites.
33
And
it
came
to
passe
as
soone
as
Gideon
was
dead,
that
the
children
of
Israel
turned
againe,
and
went
a
whoring
after
Baalim,
and
made
Baal-Berith
their
god.
34
And
the
children
of
Israel
remembred
not
the
Lord
their
God,
who
had
deliuered
them
out
of
the
hands
of
all
their
enemies,
on
euery
side:
35
Neither
shewed
they
kindnesse
to
the
house
of
Ierubbaal,
namely
Gideon,
according
to
all
the
goodnesse
which
he
had
shewed
vnto
Israel.
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