gideon <JUG6 -11> And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son {Gideon} threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide [it] from the Midianites.

gideon <JUG6 -13> And {Gideon} said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsak

en us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

gideon <JUG6 -19> And {Gideon} went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and presented [it].

gideon <JUG6 -22> And when {Gideon} perceived that he [was] an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

gideon <JUG6 -22> And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an angel of the LORD, {Gideon} said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

gideon <JUG6 -24> Then {Gideon} built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

gideon <JUG6 -27> Then {Gideon} took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and [so] it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do [it] by day, that he did [it] by night.

gideon <JUG6 -29> And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, {Gideon} the son of Joash hath done this thing.

gideon <JUG6 -34> But the spirit of the LORD came upon {Gideon}, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.

gideon <JUG6 -36> And {Gideon} said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

gideon <JUG6 -39> And {Gideon} said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew

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gideon <JUG7 -1> Then Jerubbaal, who [is] {Gideon}, and all the people that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

gideon <JUG7 -2> And the LORD said unto {Gideon}, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

gideon <JUG7 -4> And the LORD said unto {Gideon}, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; a

nd of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

gideon <JUG7 -5> So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto {Gideon}, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to dri

nk.

gideon <JUG7 -7> And the LORD said unto {Gideon}, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.

gideon <JUG7 -13> And when {Gideon} was come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fel

l, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

gideon <JUG7 -14> And his fellow answered and said, This [is] nothing else save the sword of {Gideon} the son of Joash, a man of Israel: [for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

gideon <JUG7 -15> And it was [so], when {Gideon} heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

gideon <JUG7 -18> When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of {Gideon}.

gideon <JUG7 -19> So {Gideon}, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their

hands.

gideon <JUG7 -20> And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of {Gideon}.

gideon <JUG7 -24> And {Gideon} sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters

 unto Bethbarah and Jordan.

gideon <JUG7 -25> And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to {Gideon} on the other side Jord

an.

gideon <JUG8 -4> And {Gideon} came to Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet pursuing [them].

gideon <JUG8 -7> And {Gideon} said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

gideon <JUG8 -11> And {Gideon} went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

gideon <JUG8 -13> And {Gideon} the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun [was up],

gideon <JUG8 -21> Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man [is, so is] his strength. And {Gideon} arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that [were] on their camels' necks.

gideon <JUG8 -22> Then the men of Israel said unto {Gideon}, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

gideon <JUG8 -23> And {Gideon} said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.

gideon <JUG8 -24> And {Gideon} said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)

gideon <JUG8 -27> And {Gideon} made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

gideon <JUG8 -27> And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto {Gideon}, and to his house.

gideon <JUG8 -28> Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of {Gideon}.

gideon <JUG8 -30> And {Gideon} had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

gideon <JUG8 -32> And {Gideon} the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

gideon <JUG8 -33> And it came to pass, as soon as {Gideon} was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

gideon <JUG8 -35> Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], {Gideon}, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel.

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