Judges 8:28-35

Forty Years of Peace

28 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.
29 Then 1Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
30 Now Gideon had 2seventy sons who were his direct descendants, for he had many wives.
31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named * him Abimelech.
32 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.
33 Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, 3that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made 4Baal-berith their god.
34 Thus the sons of Israel 5did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side;
35 6nor did they show kindness to the household of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon ) in accord with all the good that he had done to Israel.

Cross References 6

  • 1. Judges 7:1
  • 2. Judges 9:2, 5
  • 3. Judges 2:11, 12
  • 4. Judg 9:4, 27, 46
  • 5. Deuteronomy 4:9; Judges 3:7
  • 6. Judges 9:16-18

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Lit "came from his loins"
  • [b]. Lit "appointed his name"
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