Verse 24

Gideon continued,“I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.”(The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 25:13 : 13 These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names according to their records: Nebaioth(Ishmael’s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
  • Gen 37:25 : 25 When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.
  • Gen 37:28 : 28 So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.
  • Exod 12:35 : 35 Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them– they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.
  • Exod 32:3 : 3 So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
  • 1 Sam 25:11 : 11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”
  • 1 Kgs 20:11 : 11 The king of Israel replied,“Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.”
  • 1 Pet 3:3-5 : 3 Let your beauty not be external– the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes– 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,
  • Gen 16:10-11 : 10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.” 11 Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.
  • Gen 24:22 : 22 After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold wrist bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.
  • Gen 24:53 : 53 Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.