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|Jueces 8:21|
Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. `As is the man, so is his strength.’“ So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels’ necks.
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|Jueces 8:22|
The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us — you, your son and your grandson — because you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
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|Jueces 8:23|
But Gideon told them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you.”
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|Jueces 8:24|
And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an ear-ring from your share of the plunder.” (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold ear-rings.)
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|Jueces 8:25|
They answered, “We’ll be glad to give them.” So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
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|Jueces 8:26|
The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels’ necks.
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|Jueces 8:27|
Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
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|Jueces 8:28|
Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land enjoyed peace for forty years.
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|Jueces 8:29|
Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live.
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He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.
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