Judges 8:28

Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. ¹  The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time. ² 

Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ³  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 21:14

21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ⁴  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”

² tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”

³ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”