Giudici 8:32

32 Poi Gedeone, figliuolo di Joas, morì in buona vecchiaia, e fu sepolto nella tomba di Joas suo padre, a Ofra degli Abiezeriti.

Giudici 8:32 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 8:32

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age
Having lived it seems forty years after his war with Midian, blessed with a large family, much wealth and riches, great credit and esteem among his people, and in favour with God and men:

and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites;
a city which belonged to the family of the Abiezrites, who were of the tribe of Manasseh, in which Gideon lived, and his father before him; and where there was a family vault, in which he was interred. In the days of this judge it is supposed ^F13 was the famous expedition of the Argonauts to Colchis, to fetch from thence the golden fleece.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Gerard. Voss Chronolog. Sacr. Dissert. 1. p. 4.

Giudici 8:32 In-Context

30 Or Gedeone ebbe settanta figliuoli, che gli nacquero dalle molte mogli che ebbe.

31 E la sua concubina, che stava a Sichem, gli partorì anch’ella un figliuolo, al quale pose nome Abimelec.

32 Poi Gedeone, figliuolo di Joas, morì in buona vecchiaia, e fu sepolto nella tomba di Joas suo padre, a Ofra degli Abiezeriti.

33 Dopo che Gedeone fu morto, i figliuoli d’Israele ricominciarono a prostituirsi agl’idoli di Baal, e presero Baal-Berith come loro dio.

34 I figliuoli d’Israele non si ricordarono dell’Eterno, del loro Dio, che li avea liberati dalle mani di tutti i loro nemici d’ogn’intorno;