Judges 8:29

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Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) son of Joash went back to his home to live.

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  • Judg 6:32 : 32 So that day, Gideon was called Jerubbaal, saying, 'Let Baal contend with him,' because he tore down Baal's altar.
  • Judg 7:1 : 1 Early in the morning, Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people with him set up camp beside the spring of Harod. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was to the north of them, by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
  • 1 Sam 12:11 : 11 Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, so that you lived in safety.
  • Neh 5:14-15 : 14 Moreover, from the day I was appointed to be governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor. 15 The former governors who were before me placed heavy burdens on the people, taking food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Even their servants oppressed the people. But because of the fear of God, I did not act like that.

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  • Judg 7:1-2
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    1 Early in the morning, Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people with him set up camp beside the spring of Harod. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was to the north of them, by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

    2 The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many people with you for me to hand Midian over to them, lest Israel boast against me, claiming, 'My own strength has delivered me.'

  • Judg 8:30-33
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    30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.

    31 His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

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

    33 After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals, making Baal-Berith their god.

  • Judg 8:27-28
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    27 Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

    28 Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During the days of Gideon, the land had peace for forty years.

  • Judg 8:11-13
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    11 Gideon went up by the route of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the camp while the army was unprepared.

    12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but Gideon pursued them. He captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and threw the entire army into a panic.

    13 Gideon, son of Joash, returned from the battle by the Ascent of Heres.

  • Judg 6:32-34
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    32 So that day, Gideon was called Jerubbaal, saying, 'Let Baal contend with him,' because he tore down Baal's altar.

    33 Now all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east joined forces, crossed the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

    34 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

  • 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, escaped by hiding himself.

  • 11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

  • Judg 6:27-29
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    27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the city, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

    28 When the men of the city got up early in the morning, they saw that the altar of Baal had been torn down, the Asherah pole was cut down, and the second bull offered on the newly built altar.

    29 They asked one another, 'Who did this?' When they investigated and inquired, they were told, 'Gideon son of Joash did it.'

  • Judg 6:24-25
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    24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it 'The Lord is Peace.' To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

    25 That same night the Lord said to him, 'Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.'

  • Judg 8:20-23
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    20 He then said to Jether, his firstborn, 'Get up and kill them.' But the young man did not draw his sword because he was afraid, still being just a boy.

    21 Zebah and Zalmunna said, 'Get up yourself and strike us down, for a man is judged by his strength.' So Gideon got up, killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.

    22 The Israelites said to Gideon, 'Rule over us—you, your son, and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.'

    23 But Gideon replied, 'I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.'

  • 1 Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to visit his mother’s relatives. He spoke to them and to the entire family of his mother’s household, saying:

  • Judg 9:16-17
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    16 Now, if you acted faithfully and sincerely in making Abimelech king, and if you have treated Jerubbaal and his family well, and if you have repaid him in accordance with what he did for you—

    17 'because my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you from the hand of Midian—'

  • Judg 7:14-15
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    14 His companion responded, "This can only mean the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian and the entire camp into his hands."

    15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He returned to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands."

  • 19 if you have acted faithfully and sincerely toward Jerubbaal and his family today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

  • 41 Abimelech stayed in Arumah, while Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

  • Judg 7:7-9
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    7 The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped, I will save you and hand Midian over to you. Let all the others go home."

    8 So the three hundred men took provisions and their trumpets. The rest of the men of Israel were sent away, each to his own home, but Gideon kept the three hundred men. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

    9 That night the LORD said to him, "Get up and go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands.

  • 17 But he always returned to Ramah, where his home was. There he judged Israel and also built an altar to the LORD.

  • 11 Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, so that you lived in safety.

  • Judg 8:7-8
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    7 So Gideon said, 'Very well, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will tear your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and briars.'

    8 From there he went up to Penuel and made the same request of them, but they answered him just as the men of Succoth had.

  • 17 Meanwhile, Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

  • 35 They also failed to show kindness to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good that he had done for Israel.

  • 25 They captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, across the Jordan.

  • 50 As instructed by the LORD, they gave him the city he asked for—Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. He built up the city and settled there.

  • 21 Then Jotham fled, running away to Beer, and he lived there because he feared his brother Abimelech.

  • 3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob. Men who were worthless gathered around Jephthah and went out with him.

  • Judg 12:7-8
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    66%

    7 Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in the towns of Gilead.

    8 After him, Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.

  • 8 Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, lived in Aroer and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.

  • 22 The people of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

  • 4 Then Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet pursuing, came to the Jordan and crossed it.