The Koine Bible

And the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, What is this thing you did to us, not to call us when you went to set yourself in battle against Midian? And they contended with him strongly.

And he said to them, What have I done now, as you? Or is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Into your hand the Lord gave the rulers of Midian, Oreb and Zeb, and what was I able to do as you? Then their spirit was relaxed from him, when he spoke this word.

And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the three hundred men with him, hungry and pursuing.

And he said to the men of Succoth, Give now loaves of bread for food to this people that is under my feet, because they are failing, and behold, I am pursuing after Zebee and Salmana, kings of Midian.

And the rulers of Succoth said, Is the hand of Zebee and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?

And Gideon said, Therefore, when the Lord gives Zebee and Salmana into my hand, then I will thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with the abarkēnin.

And he went up from there to Penuel and spoke to them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him in the same way as the men of Succoth answered.

And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, When I return in peace, I will tear down this tower.

and Zebee and Salmana in Karkar, and their camp with them, about fifteen thousand, all who remained from every camp of foreigners, and those who had fallen, one hundred twenty thousand men drawing a sword

And Gideon went up by the way of those who were dwelling in tents, from the east of Noba and Iegebal, and he struck the camp, and the camp was confident.

And Zebee and Salmana fled, and he pursued after them and seized the two kings of Midian, Zebee and Salmana, and all the camp he put to confusion

And Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle line, from above the battle line of Ares

And he took hold of a young boy from the men of Succoth and questioned him, and he wrote down for him the names of the rulers of Succoth and of their elders, seventy-seven men.

And Gideon came to the rulers of Succoth and said, Behold Zebee and Salmana, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, Is the hand of Zebee and Salmana now in your hand, that we should give loaves to your exhausted men?

And he took the elders of the city, with the thorns of the wilderness and with the barakenim, and he taught the men of the city by means of them.

And he tore down the tower of Phanuel and killed the men of the city

And he said to Zebee and Selmana, Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor? And they said, As you, so they, each one in the likeness of a king’s son.

And Gideon said, My brothers and sons of my mother were alive; as the Lord lives, if you had kept them alive, I would not have killed you.

And Jether said to his firstborn, Rise up, kill them. And the boy did not draw his sword, because he feared, because he was still younger.

And Zebee and Salmana said, Rise you and meet us, for as a man is your strength. And Gideon rose and killed Zebee and Salmana, and he took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.

And the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule over us, both you and your son, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.

And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.

And Gideon said to them, I will ask a request from you, and give me each man an earring from his spoil, for they had gold earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.

And they said, giving we will give. And he spread out his garment, and each man threw there a ring from his spoils.

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and five hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple robes that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were on the necks of their camels.

And Gideon made it into an ephod and set it in his city, in Ephratha, and all Israel went whoring after it there, and it became to Gideon and to his house a stumbling block.

And Midian was humbled before the sons of Israel, and they did not continue to lift up their head, and the land was quiet for forty years in the days of Gideon.

And Jerobaal son of Joas went and sat in his house

And Gideon had seventy sons who had gone out from his loins, because he had many wives.

And his concubine was in Shechem, and she bore him a son, and she also put his name Abimelech

And Gideon son of Joash died in his city, and he was buried in the tomb of Joash his father in Ephratha Abiezerite.

And it came to be, when Gideon died, that the sons of Israel turned back and prostituted themselves after the Baalim, and they made for themselves with Baal a covenant, to be to them a god.

And the sons of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all those afflicting them from all around

and they did not show mercy to the house of Jerobaal, he is Gideon, according to all the good things which he did with Israel