Discovery BoxJudges 8:28 
ContextGideon’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
Context15:8 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
Context21:14 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
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.”
