Judges 8:29

The Death of Gideon

29 Jerub-Baal son of Joash lived in his own house.

Judges 8:29 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 8:29

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash
That is, Gideon, Jerubbaal being another name of his; see ( Judges 6:32 ) ( 7:1 ) went and dwelt in his own house; which was at Ophrah, as appears from ( Judges 9:5 ) the war being ended, he disbanded his army, and retired to his own house; not that he lived altogether a private life there, but as a judge in Israel.

Judges 8:29 In-Context

27 Gideon made an ephod [out of] it, and he put it in his town in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted [themselves] to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

28 And Midian was subdued before the {Israelites}, and they did not again lift up their head, and the land rested for forty years in the days of Gideon.

29 Jerub-Baal son of Joash lived in his own house.

30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, {his own offspring}, for he had many wives.

31 His concubine who [was] in Shechem also bore for him a son, and {he named him} Abimelech.