Judges 8
8:1And a man of Ephraim said to him, What is this thing you do to us, to not call us when you went to deploy against Midian? And they quarreled with him forcefully.
8:2And he said to them, What did I do now as concerning you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the gathering the crops of Abiezer?
8:3In your hand the lord delivered up the rulers of Midian -- Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do as you? Then their spirit was spared towards them in his speaking with them this word.
8:4And Gideon came upon the Jordan, and he passed over and the three hundred men, the ones with him, faint-hearted and hungering.
8:5And he said to the men of Succoth, Give indeed bread loaves for the nourishment to this people with me! for they hunger, for I pursue after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
8:6And the rulers of Succoth said, The hand of Zebah and Zalmunna is not now in your hand, that we should give bread loaves to your military.
8:7And Gideon said, Thus in the giving by the lord Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, that I will rend in shreds your flesh with the thorn-bushes of the wilderness, and with the Barkenim.
8:8And he ascended from there to Penuel, and spoke to them according to these things. And the men of Penuel answered to him in which manner the men of Succoth answered to him.
8:9And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, saying, In my returning with peace, I will raze this tower.
8:10And Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camp with them, about fifteen thousand, all the ones being left in all the camp of the sons of the east. And the ones falling were a hundred and twenty thousand men unsheathing the broadsword.
8:11And Gideon ascended the way of the ones dwelling in tents from the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he struck the camp. And the camp was secure.
8:12And Zebah fled, and Zalmunna. And he pursued after them, and he took hold of the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and all their camp was startled.
8:13And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Ares.
8:14And he seized a servant from the men of Succoth, and he questioned him; and he registered for him the rulers of Succoth, and their elders -- seventy and seven men.
8:15And he came to the rulers of Succoth. And he said to them, Behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, by whom you berated me, saying, Not is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we will give bread loaves to your men fainting.
8:16And he took the rulers and the elders of the city into the thorn-bushes of the wilderness, and the Barkenim, and he rent with them the men of Succoth.
8:17And the tower of Penuel he razed, and he killed the men of the city.
8:18And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner are the men whom you killed in Tabor? And they said, As you, so they are likened to you -- likened to them as the appearance of sons of kings.
8:19And Gideon said, They are sons of my brothers of my mother. As the lord lives, if you brought them forth alive, I would not have killed you.
8:20And he said to Jether his first-born, In rising up, you kill them! And the boy did not unsheathe his sword, for he feared, for he was younger.
8:21And Zebah and Zalmunna said, You rise up indeed yourself and meet us! for as a man is, so also his power. And Gideon rose up, and did away with Zebah and Zalmunna. And he took the crescents on the necks of their camels.
8:22And a man of Israel said to Gideon, Rule among us, you and your son, and the son of your son! for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.
8:23And Gideon said to them, I will not rule you, and my son will not rule among you -- the lord shall rule you.
8:24And Gideon said to them, I will ask from you a request, and you give to me -- every man an ear-ring of his spoils; for ear-rings of gold was to them, because they were Ismaelites.
8:25And they said, In giving we will give. And he unfolded his garment, and each man tossed there an ear-ring of his spoils.
8:26And was the weight of the ear-rings of gold which he asked for -- a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the ornaments of the crescents, and the wrap around garments of the ones of purple, of the ones upon the kings of Midian, even besides the collars of the ones on the necks of their camels.
8:27And Gideon made to himself for an ephod, and set it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel fornicated after it there. And it became an obstacle to Gideon and his house.
8:28And Midian was in remorse before the sons of Israel, and they did not proceed yet to lift their head; and the land was tranquil forty years in the days of Gideon.
8:29And Jerubbaal son of Joash went and dwelt in his house.
8:30And to Gideon there were seventy sons going forth from out of his thighs, for there were many wives to him.
8:31And his concubine in Shechem, she bore to him also indeed a son, and put upon him his name -- Abimelech.
8:32And Gideon the son of Joash died with good grayness of hair. And he was entombed in the burying-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
8:33And it came to pass as Gideon died, that the sons of Israel returned and fornicated after the Baalim, and established to themselves Baal-berith for a covenant, for him to be to them for god.
8:34And the sons of Israel did not remember the lord their God, the one rescuing them from out of the hand of all their enemies round about.
8:35And they did not do mercy with the house of Jerubbaal -- Gideon, according to all the goodness which he did with Israel.