Judges 8:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Gideon saith unto them, `I do not rule over you, nor doth my son rule over you; Jehovah doth rule over you.'

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  • 1 Sam 10:19 : 19 and ye to-day have rejected your God, who `is' Himself your saviour out of all your evils and your distresses, and ye say, `Nay, but -- a king thou dost set over us; and now, station yourselves before Jehovah, by your tribes, and by your thousands.'
  • 1 Sam 12:12 : 12 `And ye see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon hath come against you, and ye say to me, Nay, but a king doth reign over us; and Jehovah your God `is' your king!
  • Isa 33:22 : 22 For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king -- He doth save us.
  • Isa 63:19 : 19 We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them!
  • Luke 22:24-27 : 24 And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater. 25 And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors; 26 but ye `are' not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering; 27 for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
  • Judg 2:18 : 18 And when Jehovah raised up to them judges -- then was Jehovah with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repenteth Jehovah, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.
  • Judg 10:18 : 18 And the people -- heads of Gilead -- say one unto another, `Who `is' the man that doth begin to fight against the Bene-Ammon? he is for head to all inhabitants of Gilead.'
  • Judg 11:9-9 : 9 And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, `If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah hath given them before me -- I, am I to you for a head?' 10 And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, `Jehovah is hearkening between us -- if according to thy word we do not so.' 11 And Jephthah goeth with the elders of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaketh all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.
  • 1 Sam 8:6-7 : 6 And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah. 7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

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  • Judg 8:20-22
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    20 And he saith to Jether his first-born, `Rise, slay them;' and the young man hath not drawn his sword, for he hath been afraid, for he `is' yet a youth.

    21 And Zebah saith -- also Zalmunna -- `Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man -- his might;' and Gideon riseth, and slayeth Zebah and Zalmunna, and taketh their round ornaments which `are' on the necks of their camels.

    22 And the men of Israel say unto Gideon, `Rule over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, for thou hast saved us from the hand of Midian.'

  • Judg 8:28-29
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    73%

    28 And Midian is humbled before the sons of Israel, and have not added to lift up their head; and the land resteth forty years in the days of Gideon.

    29 And Jerubbaal son of Joash goeth and dwelleth in his own house,

  • Judg 7:1-2
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    1 And Jerubbaal (he `is' Gideon) riseth early, and all the people who `are' with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian hath been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.

    2 And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `Too many `are' the people who `are' with thee for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand hath given salvation to me;

  • Judg 8:24-25
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    24 And Gideon saith unto them, `Let me ask of you a petition, and give ye to me each the ring of his prey, for they have rings of gold, for they `are' Ishmaelites.'

    25 And they say, `We certainly give;' and they spread out the garment, and cast thither each the ring of his prey;

  • Judg 6:36
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    36 And Gideon saith unto God, `If Thou art Saviour of Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken,

  • 1 Sam 8:17-19
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    70%

    17 your flock he doth tithe, and ye are to him for servants.

    18 And ye have cried out in that day because of the king whom ye have chosen for yourselves, and Jehovah doth not answer you in that day.'

    19 And the people refuse to hearken to the voice of Samuel, and say, `Nay, but a king is over us,

  • Judg 6:13-14
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    13 And Gideon saith unto him, `O, my lord -- and Jehovah is with us! -- and why hath all this found us? and where `are' all His wonders which our fathers recounted to us, saying, Hath not Jehovah brought us up out of Egypt? and now Jehovah hath left us, and doth give us into the hand of Midian.'

    14 And Jehovah turneth unto him and saith, `Go in this -- thy power; and thou hast saved Israel out of the hand of Midian -- have not I sent thee.'

  • Judg 6:22-24
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    70%

    22 And Gideon seeth that He `is' a messenger of Jehovah, and Gideon saith, `Alas, Lord Jehovah! because that I have seen a messenger of Jehovah face to face!'

    23 And Jehovah saith to him, `Peace to thee; fear not; thou dost not die.'

    24 And Gideon buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and calleth it Jehovah-Shalom, unto this day it `is' yet in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrites.

  • Judg 8:3
    70%

    3 Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?' Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.

  • Judg 7:14-15
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    70%

    14 And his companion answereth and saith, `This is nothing save the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God hath given into his hand Midian and all the camp.'

    15 And it cometh to pass, when Gideon heareth the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he boweth himself, and turneth back unto the camp of Israel, and saith, `Rise ye, for Jehovah hath given into your hand the camp of Midian.'

  • Judg 8:7
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    7 And Gideon saith, `Therefore -- in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand -- I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.'

  • Judg 7:7
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    7 And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `By the three hundred men who are lapping I save you, and have given Midian into thy hand, and all the people go, each to his place.'

  • Judg 7:4
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    4 And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `Yet `are' the people too many; bring them down unto the water, and I refine it for thee there; and it hath been, he of whom I say unto thee, This doth go with thee -- he doth go with thee; and any of whom I say unto thee, This doth not go with thee -- he doth not go.'

  • Lev 25:43
    69%

    43 thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

  • 1 Sam 8:7
    69%

    7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

  • 1 Sam 8:11
    69%

    11 and saith, `This is the custom of the king who doth reign over you: Your sons he doth take, and hath appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots;

  • Isa 3:7
    69%

    7 He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'

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

    12 `And ye see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon hath come against you, and ye say to me, Nay, but a king doth reign over us; and Jehovah your God `is' your king!

    13 And, now, lo, the king whom ye have chosen -- whom ye have asked! and lo, Jehovah hath placed over you a king.

  • Josh 24:21
    68%

    21 And the people saith unto Joshua, `No, but Jehovah we do serve.'

  • Judg 6:27
    68%

    27 And Gideon taketh ten men of his servants, and doth as Jehovah hath spoken unto him, and it cometh to pass, because he hath been afraid of the house of his father, and the men of the city, to do `it' by day, that he doth `it' by night.

  • Judg 7:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 And he saith unto them, `Look at me, and thus do; and lo, I am coming into the extremity of the camp -- and it hath been -- as I do so ye do;

    18 and I have blown with a trumpet -- I and all who `are' with me, and ye have blown with trumpets, even ye, round about all the camp, and have said, For Jehovah and for Gideon.'

  • Judg 8:13
    67%

    13 And Gideon son of Joash turneth back from the battle, at the going up of the sun,

  • 1 Sam 8:9
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    9 And now, hearken to their voice; only, surely thou dost certainly protest to them, and hast declared to them the custom of the king who doth reign over them.'

  • Hos 10:3
    67%

    3 For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

  • Judg 6:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10 and I say to you, I `am' Jehovah your God, ye do not fear the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling: -- and ye have not hearkened to My voice.'

    11 And the messenger of Jehovah cometh and sitteth under the oak which `is' in Ophrah, which `is' to Joash the Abi-Ezrite, and Gideon his son is beating out wheat in the wine-press, to remove `it' from the presence of the Midianites;

  • Lam 5:8
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    8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

  • Deut 17:14
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    14 `When thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast possessed it, and dwelt in it, and thou hast said, Let me set over me a king like all the nations which `are' round about me, --

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6 and saith unto the judges, `See what ye are doing -- for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who `is' with you in the matter of judgment;

  • Judg 11:8-9
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    8 and the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, `Therefore, now, we have turned back unto thee; and thou hast gone with us, and fought against the Bene-Ammon, and thou hast been to us for head -- to all the inhabitants of Gilead.'

    9 And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, `If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah hath given them before me -- I, am I to you for a head?'

  • 2 Sam 23:3
    66%

    3 He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man `is' righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.

  • Ps 108:8
    66%

    8 Mine `is' Gilead, mine `is' Manasseh, And Ephraim `is' the strength of my head, Judah `is' my lawgiver,

  • Deut 1:13
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    13 Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

  • Deut 1:42
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    42 and Jehovah saith unto me, Say to them, Ye do not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies.

  • Judg 5:13
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    13 Then him who is left of the honourable ones He caused to rule the people of Jehovah, He caused me to rule among the mighty.

  • Hos 13:10
    66%

    10 Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me `is' thy help, Where `is' thy king now -- And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?'

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