And said What you do to us, to not call us when you went to deploy against Midian? And they quarreled with him forcefully.
And he said to them, What did I do now as concerning you? Is not better than of Abiezer?
In your hand delivered up the rulers of Midian Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do as you? Then was spared towards them in his speaking with them this word.
And Gideon came upon the Jordan, and he passed over and the three hundred men, the ones with him, faint-hearted and hungering.
And 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.
And said is not now in your hand, that we should give to
And Gideon said, Thus in the giving 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.
And he ascended from there to Penuel, and spoke to them according to these things. And answered in which manner answered
And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, saying, In my returning with peace, I will raze this tower.
And Zebah and Zalmunna 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
And Gideon ascended of the ones dwelling in tents from of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he struck the camp. And the camp was secure.
And 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.
And returned from the battle from of Ares.
And 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.
And he came to the rulers of Succoth. And he said to them, Behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, by whom you berated me, saying, Not is of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we will give to
And 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.
And the tower of Penuel he razed, and he killed the men of the city.
And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner are the men whom you killed in Tabor? And they said, As you, so they to you likened to them as of sons of kings.
And Gideon said, of my brothers As the lord lives, if you brought them forth alive, I would not have killed you.
And he said Jether his first-born, In rising up, you kill them! And did not his sword, for he feared, for he was younger.
And said You rise up indeed yourself and meet us! for as a man is, his power. And Gideon rose up, and did away with Zebah and Zalmunna. And he took the crescents on the necks of their camels.
And said to Gideon, Rule among us, you and your son, and the son of your son! for you have delivered us from of Midian.
And said will not rule you, and will not rule among you shall rule you.
And said I will ask from you a request, and you give to me an ear-ring of his spoils; for ear-rings of gold was to them, because they were Ismaelites.
And they said, In giving we will give. And he unfolded his garment, and tossed an ear-ring of his spoils.
And was the weight of the ear-rings of gold which he asked for 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.
And made for an ephod, and set it in his city, in Ophrah. And fornicated after it there. And it became to
And Midian was in remorse before the sons of Israel, and they did not proceed yet to lift their head; and was tranquil forty years in of Gideon.
And went and dwelt in his house.
And Gideon there were seventy sons going forth from out of his thighs, for wives to him.
And his concubine in Shechem, bore a son, and put upon him his name Abimelech.
And died with grayness of hair And he was entombed in the burying-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah
And it came to pass as Gideon died, that returned and fornicated after the Baalim, and established to themselves Baal-berith for a covenant, to be for god.
And did not their God, the one rescuing them from out of of all their enemies round about.
And they did not do mercy with the house of Jerubbaal Gideon, according to all the goodness which he did with Israel.