Judges 8:23

World English Bible (2000)

Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you."

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 10:19 : 19 but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, '[No], but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands."
  • 1 Sam 12:12 : 12 "When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us;' when Yahweh your God was your king.
  • Isa 33:22 : 22 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
  • Isa 63:19 : 19 We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.
  • Luke 22:24-27 : 24 There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. 25 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.' 26 But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. 27 For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
  • Judg 2:18 : 18 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
  • Judg 10:18 : 18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
  • Judg 11:9-9 : 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?" 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do." 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
  • 1 Sam 8:6-7 : 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to Yahweh. 7 Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 8:20-22
    3 verses
    87%

    20He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them!" But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.

    21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

    22Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."

  • Judg 8:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

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

  • Judg 7:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

    2Yahweh said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'

  • Judg 8:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24Gideon said to them, "I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

    25They answered, "We will willingly give them." They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his spoil into it.

  • Judg 6:36
    71%

    36Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

  • 1 Sam 8:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.

    18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."

    19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,

  • Judg 6:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."

    14Yahweh looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven't I sent you?"

  • Judg 6:22-24
    3 verses
    70%

    22Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face!"

    23Yahweh said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die."

    24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it "Yahweh is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • Judg 8:3
    70%

    3God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

  • Judg 7:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army."

    15It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise; for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!"

  • Judg 8:7
    69%

    7Gideon said, "Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

  • Judg 7:7
    69%

    7Yahweh said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place."

  • Judg 7:4
    69%

    4Yahweh said to Gideon, "The people are still too many. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that of whom I tell you, 'This shall go with you,' the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, 'This shall not go with you,' the same shall not go."

  • Lev 25:43
    69%

    43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

  • 1 Sam 8:7
    69%

    7Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • 1 Sam 8:11
    69%

    11He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

  • Isa 3:7
    69%

    7In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people."

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12"When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us;' when Yahweh your God was your king.

    13Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

  • Josh 24:21
    68%

    21The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."

  • Judg 6:27
    68%

    27Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

  • Judg 7:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17He said to them, "Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.

    18When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, 'For Yahweh and for Gideon!'"

  • Judg 8:13
    67%

    13Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    67%

    9Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."

  • Hos 10:3
    67%

    3Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?"

  • Judg 6:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10and I said to you, "I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell." But you have not listened to my voice.'"

    11The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

  • Lam 5:8
    67%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Deut 17:14
    67%

    14When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;"

  • 2 Chr 19:6
    66%

    6and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Judg 11:8-9
    2 verses
    66%

    8The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

    9Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?"

  • 2 Sam 23:3
    66%

    3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

  • Ps 108:8
    66%

    8Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.

  • Deut 1:13
    66%

    13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

  • Deut 1:42
    66%

    42Yahweh said to me, "Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'"

  • Judg 5:13
    66%

    13"Then a remnant of the nobles [and] the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.

  • Hos 13:10
    66%

    10Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'