Judges 8:29-35

The Death of Gideon

29 ¹Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

30 Now Gideon had ²seventy sons, his own offspring,^[a] for he had many wives.

31 And his concubine ³who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

32 And Gideon the son of Joash died ⁴in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, ⁵at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

33 ⁶As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and ⁷whored after the Baals and made ⁸Baal-berith their god.

34 And the people of Israel ⁹did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,

35 ¹⁰and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.

Judges 8:29-35 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 8

In this chapter we are told how Gideon pacified the Ephraimites, who complained because they were not sent unto to fight the Midianites, Jud 8:1-3 how he pursued the Midianites, until he took their two kings, and on his return chastised the men of Succoth and Penuel, because they refused to relieve his men with food as they were pursuing, Jud 8:4-17 how he slew the two kings of Midian, Jud 8:18-21 and after this conquest refused to take the government of Israel when offered him, Jud 8:22,23 how he requested of the Israelites the earrings they had taken from the Midianites, with which he in weakness made an ephod, which proved a snare to his house, Jud 8:24-27 how that the people were in peace forty years during his life, and that he had a numerous issue, and died in a good old age, Jud 8:28-32 but that after his death the Israelites fell into idolatry, and were ungrateful to his family, Jud 8:33-35.

Cross References

• 1. Judges 6:32; Judges 7:1
• 2. Judges 9:2, 5
• 3. Judges 9:1, 2
• 4. Genesis 15:15; Genesis 25:8; Job 5:26
• 5. Judges 6:24
• 6. [Judges 2:19]
• 7. See ver. 27
• 8. Judges 9:4, 46
• 9. Psalms 78:11, 42; Psalms 106:13, 21
• 10. See Judges 9:16-18

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew who came from his own loins