The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply. 2Sa 19:41Job 5:2Jas 4:5-6Jdg 12:1-6Ecc 4:4 He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? Jas 1:19-201Co 13:4-7Gal 5:14-15Jas 3:13-18Jdg 6:11Jdg 6:34Php 2:2-3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that. Pro 15:1Jdg 7:24-25Jhn 4:37Php 2:3Pro 16:32Pro 25:11Pro 25:15Psa 115:1
Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. 2Co 4:16Gal 6:91Sa 14:28-291Sa 30:10Heb 12:1-42Co 4:8-91Sa 14:31-32Jdg 7:25 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.” Gen 33:17Psa 60:61Sa 25:182Sa 17:28-293Jn 1:6-8Deu 23:4Gen 14:18
The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?” 1Ki 20:11Php 2:211Sa 25:10-112Ki 14:9Gen 25:13Gen 37:25Gen 37:28Jdg 5:23
Gideon said, “Therefore when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.” Jdg 7:15
He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. 1Ki 12:25Gen 32:30-31 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.” 1Ki 22:27-28Jdg 8:17
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword. Jdg 7:122Ki 3:26Isa 9:4Jdg 20:15Jdg 20:17Jdg 20:2Jdg 20:25Jdg 20:35 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure. Num 32:35Num 32:421Th 5:3Jdg 18:271Sa 15:321Sa 30:16 Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army. Psa 83:11Amo 2:14Job 12:16-21Job 34:19Jos 10:16-18Jos 10:22-25Rev 19:19-21Rev 6:15-16 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres. He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men. 1Sa 30:11-15Jdg 1:24-25 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’” Jdg 8:6-7 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. Jdg 8:7Pro 10:13Pro 19:29Ezr 2:6Mic 7:4 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. Jdg 8:91Ki 12:25
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” Jdg 4:6Jud 1:16Psa 12:2Psa 89:12
They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
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. 1Sa 15:33Jos 10:24Psa 149:9
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks. Psa 83:11Isa 3:18Jdg 8:261Sa 31:31Sa 31:5Jdg 9:54Psa 83:1Rev 9:6
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.” Jhn 6:151Sa 12:121Sa 8:5Jdg 9:8-15
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The LORD shall rule over you.” Isa 33:221Sa 12:121Sa 10:192Co 1:241Pe 5:31Sa 8:6-7Jdg 10:18Jdg 11:9-11 Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) Gen 25:131Pe 3:3-5Exo 32:3Gen 37:25Gen 37:281Ki 20:111Sa 25:11Exo 12:35
They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it. The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels 1 of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks. Est 8:15Jer 10:9Jhn 19:2Jhn 19:5Rev 18:12Rev 18:16Ezk 27:7Rev 17:4 Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house. Psa 106:39Deu 7:16Jdg 17:5Jdg 18:14Jdg 18:17Exo 23:33Jdg 6:241Sa 23:9-10 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. Jdg 5:31Jdg 3:11Isa 10:26Isa 9:4Jdg 3:30Psa 83:9-12
Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. 1Sa 12:11Jdg 6:32Jdg 7:1Neh 5:14-15 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives. Jdg 9:2Jdg 9:51Ki 11:3Deu 17:172Ki 10:12Sa 3:2-52Sa 5:13-16Eph 5:31-33 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. Gen 16:15Gen 20:2Gen 22:24Jdg 9:1-5Jdg 9:18 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Gen 25:8Gen 15:15Jdg 6:24Job 42:17Job 5:26Jdg 8:27Jos 24:29-30
As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god. Jdg 9:4Jdg 2:19Jdg 9:46Jdg 2:17Jdg 8:272Ch 24:17-18Exo 34:15-16Jer 3:9 The children of Israel didn’t remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; Psa 78:42Psa 106:21Psa 78:11Deu 4:9Ecc 12:1Jdg 3:7Jer 2:32Psa 106:18 neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel. Ecc 9:14-15Jdg 9:16-19Jdg 9:5