Judges 8:28

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

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WEBBE

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

BSB

In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

KJV

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

ASV

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

BBE

So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon.

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וַיִּכָּנַע vai·yi·ka·na' and it was subdued H3665 מִדְיָן mid·yan Midian H4080 לִפְנֵי lif·nei (to) before H6440 בְּנֵי be·nei [the] people of H1121 יִשְׂרָאֵל yis·ra·'el Israel H3478 וְלֹא ve·lo' and not H3808 יָסְפוּ ya·se·fu they repeated H3254 לָשֵׂאת la·set to lift up H5375 רֹאשָׁם ro·sham head their H7218 וַתִּשְׁקֹט va·tish·kot and it was at peace H8252 הָאָרֶץ ha·'a·retz the land H776 אַרְבָּעִים 'ar·ba·'im forty H705 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 בִּימֵי bi·mei in [the] days of H3117 גִדְעוֹן פ gid·'on Gideon H1439

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 22–28

Gideon refused the government the people offered him. No good man can be pleased with any honour done to himself, which belongs only to God. Gideon thought to keep up the remembrance of this victory by an ephod, made of the choicest of the spoils. But probably this ephod had, as usual, a teraphim annexed to it, and Gideon intended this for an oracle to be consulted. Many are led into false ways by one false step of a good man. It became a snare to Gideon himself, and it proved the ruin of the family. How soon will ornaments which feed the lust of the eye, and form the pride of life, as well as tend to the indulgences of the flesh, bring shame on those who are fond of them!

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Gideon Midian Israel Midian

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Forty

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.