The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Judges 8:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] He went up from there to Penuel and spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered.

 

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Judges 8:9
King James version(KJV)

9.)And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

 

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Judges 8:10
New International Version (NIV)

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.

 

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Judges 8:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the camp when the camp was unsuspecting.

 

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Judges 8:12 (KJV)
And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.

 

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Judges 7:22 (NASB)
[SUP]22 [/SUP] When they blew 300 trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

Please let me regress. (Hoped i could post in time, but cannot.) I found this image for the verse 7.22 but took a while to capture it to post. There are not many pictures or drawings of these passages and it helps (me) to visualize the event.

 

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Jdg 8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,

 

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Judges 8:14
And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.

 

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Judges 8:15 (KJV)
And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?

 

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Judges 8:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

 

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Judges 8:17
New International Version (NIV)

He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.

 

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Judges 8:18 (NASB)
[SUP]18 [/SUP] Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" And they said, "They were like you, each one resembling the son of a king."

 

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Judges 8:19
King James version(KJV)

19.)And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

 

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Jdg 8:20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

 

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Judges 8:21 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise up yourself, and fall on us; for as the man, so is his strength." So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments which were on their camels' necks.

 

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Judges 8:22 (KJV)
Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

 

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Judges 8:23
New International Version (NIV)

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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Judges 8:24 (KJV)
And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

 

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Jdg 8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.

 

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Judges 8:25 (NASB)
[SUP]25 [/SUP] They said, "We will surely give them." So they spread out a garment, and every one of them threw an earring there from his spoil.