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But the youth did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a youth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise up yourself, and fall on us; for as the man, so is his strength. So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments which were on their camels necks. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule over us, both you and your son, also your sons son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>But Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the L<font size="1">ORD</font> shall rule over you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Yet Gideon said to them, I would request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his spoil. (For they had gold earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>They said, We will surely give <i>them.</i> So they spread out a garment, and every one of them threw an earring there from his spoil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 <i>shekels</i> of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple robes which <i>were</i> on the kings of Midian, and besides the neck bands that <i>were</i> on their camels necks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Forty Years of Peace</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not lift up their heads anymore. And the land was undisturbed for forty years in the days of Gideon. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Now Gideon had seventy sons who were his direct descendants, for he had many wives. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>And Gideon the son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Thus the sons of Israel did not remember the L<font size="1">ORD</font> their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/8-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>nor did they show kindness to the household of Jerubbaal (<i>that is,</i> Gideon) in accord with all the good that he had done to Israel. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/judges/8.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And he said unto Jether his first-born, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/judges/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he said to Jether his eldest son: Arise, and slay them. But he drew not his sword: for he was afraid, being but yet a boy. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/judges/8.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And he said to Jether his first-born, "Rise, and slay them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/judges/8.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/judges/8.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And he said to Jether his first-born, Arise, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/judges/8.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them!" But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/judges/8.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And he saith to Jether his first-born, 'Rise, slay them;' and the young man hath not drawn his sword, for he hath been afraid, for he is yet a youth.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_21_faint_yet_pursuing.htm">September 21. "Faint, yet Pursuing" (Judges viii. 4). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Faint, yet pursuing" (Judges viii. 4). It is a great thing thus to learn to depend upon God to work through our feeble resources, and yet, while so depending, to be absolutely faithful and diligent, and not allow our trust to deteriorate into supineness and indolence. We find no sloth or negligence in Gideon, or his three hundred; though they were weak and few, they were wholly true, and everything in them ready for God to use to the very last. "Faint yet pursuing" was their watchword as they followed <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_21_faint_yet_pursuing.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_v_the_christian_faith.htm">The Christian Faith</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Scripture references: Hebrews 11; Matthew 9:29; 17:20; Mark 10:52; 11:22; Acts 2:38; 3:16; 10:43; 16:30,31; Romans 1:17; 5:1; 10:17; Galatians 2:20. FAITH AND PRACTICE Belief Controls Action.--"As the man is, so is his strength" (Judges 8:21), "For as he thinketh in his heart so is he" (Proverbs 23:7). "According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 9:28,29). "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life" (Proverbs 4:23). The Scriptures place stress upon the fact that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_v_the_christian_faith.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry T. Sell—</span><span class="citation2">Studies in the Life of the Christian</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_8_subjects_of_study.htm">Subjects of Study. Home Education in Israel; Female Education. Elementary Schools, Schoolmasters, and School Arrangements. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">If a faithful picture of society in ancient Greece or Rome were to be presented to view, it is not easy to believe that even they who now most oppose the Bible could wish their aims success. For this, at any rate, may be asserted, without fear of gainsaying, that no other religion than that of the Bible has proved competent to control an advanced, or even an advancing, state of civilisation. Every other bound has been successively passed and submerged by the rising tide; how deep only the student <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_8_subjects_of_study.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_10_of_the_power.htm">Of the Power of Making Laws. The Cruelty of the Pope and his Adherents, in this Respect, in Tyrannically Oppressing and Destroying Souls. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The power of the Church in enacting laws. This made a source of human traditions. Impiety of these traditions. 2. Many of the Papistical traditions not only difficult, but impossible to be observed. 3. That the question may be more conveniently explained, nature of conscience must be defined. 4. Definition of conscience explained. Examples in illustration of the definition. 5. Paul's doctrine of submission to magistrates for conscience sake, gives no countenance to the Popish doctrine of the obligation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_10_of_the_power.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/judges.htm">Judges</a><br></span><span class="snippet">For the understanding of the early history and religion of Israel, the book of Judges, which covers the period from the death of Joshua to the beginning of the struggle with the Philistines, is of inestimable importance; and it is very fortunate that the elements contributed by the later editors are so easily separated from the ancient stories whose moral they seek to point. That moral is most elaborately stated in ii. 6-iii. 6, which is a sort of programme or preface to iii. 7-xvi. 31, which constitutes <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/judges.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/judges/8-20.htm">Judges 8:20 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/8-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 8:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 8:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/8-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 8:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 8:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/judges/8-20.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>