Judges 8:21
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| Overview - Judges 8 | |
| 1 | Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites. |
| 4 | Succoth and Penuel refuse to deliver Gideon's army. |
| 10 | Zebah and Zalmunna are taken. |
| 13 | Succoth and Penuel are destroyed. |
| 17 | Gideon revenges his brethren's death on Zebah and Zalmunna. |
| 22 | He refuses government. |
| 24 | His ephod the cause of idolatry. |
| 28 | Midian subdued. |
| 29 | Gideon's children, and death. |
| 33 | The Israelites' idolatry and ingratitude. |
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Judges 8:21 (King James Version)
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.
- Rise thou
- It was disgraceful to fall by the hands of a child; and death by the blows of such a person must be much more lingering and tormenting
- Some have employed children to dispatch captives.
- 9:54 1 Samuel 31:3 1 Samuel 31:5 ; Revelation 9:6
- slew
- Psalms 83:1
- ornaments
- or, ornaments like the moon.
- Isaiah 3:18