Judges 8:26
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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 8:26 (King James Version)
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
- a thousand
- Taking the shekel at half an ounce, the sum of the gold ear-rings was 73 lbs
- 4oz. and worth about 3,300 sterling.
- collars
- or, sweet jewels. purple.
- Esther 8:15 ; Jeremiah 10:9 ; Ezekiel 27:7 ; Luke 16:19 ; John 19:2 John 19:5 ; Revelation 17:4
- Revelation 18:12 Revelation 18:16
- chains
- 8:21