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Judges 8:26 (KJV)
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.

 

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Judges 8:27 (NASB)
[SUP]27 [/SUP] Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

 

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Judges 8:28
New International Version (NIV)

Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.

 

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Judges 8:29 (NASB)
[SUP]29 [/SUP] Then Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

 

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Judges 8:30 (HCSB)
Gideon had 70 sons, his own offspring, since he had many wives.

 

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Judges 8:31 (NASB)
[SUP]31 [/SUP] His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

 

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Judges 8:32
New International Version (NIV)

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.

 

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Judges 8:33
King James version(KJV)

33.)And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

 

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Judges 8:34 (KJV)
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

 

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Judges 8:35
New International Version (NIV)

They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.

 

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Jdg 9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

 

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Judges 9:2
King James version(KJV)

2.)Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

 

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Judges 9:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem; and they were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our relative."

 

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Judges 9:4 (KJV)
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

 

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Judges 9:5
King James Version(KJV)

5.)And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

 

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Jdg 9:6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.

 

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Judges 9:7
New International Version (NIV)

When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, “Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

 

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Judges 9:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] "Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us!'

 

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Judges 9:9
"But the olive tree answered, 'Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?"

 

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Judges 9:10
King James version(KJV)

10.)And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.