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<bible version='kjv' description='The King James Bible with Strongs Numbers' language='ENG' strongs='true'>
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      <verse number='1'>And the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="669">Ephraim</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>him, <strongs number="4100">Why</strongs>hast thou <strongs number="6213">served</strongs>us <strongs number="2088">thus</strongs>, that thou <strongs number="7121">calledst</strongs>us <strongs number="1115">not</strongs>, <strongs number="3588">when</strongs>thou <strongs number="1980">wentest</strongs>to <strongs number="3898">fight</strongs>with the <strongs number="4080">Midianites</strongs>? And they did <strongs number="7378">chide</strongs><strongs number="854">with</strongs>him <strongs number="2394">sharply</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='2'>And he <strongs number="559">said</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>them, <strongs number="4100">What</strongs>have I <strongs number="6213">done</strongs><strongs number="6258">now</strongs>in comparison of you? <em> Is </em><strongs number="3808">not</strongs>the gleaning of the <strongs number="5955">grapes</strongs>of <strongs number="669">Ephraim</strongs><strongs number="2896">better</strongs>than the <strongs number="4480 1210">vintage</strongs>of <strongs number="44">Abi</strongs>-ezer? </verse>
      <verse number='3'><strongs number="430">God</strongs>hath <strongs number="5414">delivered</strongs>into your <strongs number="3027">hands</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="8269">princes</strongs>of <strongs number="4080">Midian</strongs>, <strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="6159">Oreb</strongs>and <strongs number="2062">Zeeb</strongs>: and <strongs number="4100">what</strongs>was I <strongs number="3201">able</strongs>to <strongs number="6213">do</strongs>in comparison of you? <strongs number="227">Then</strongs>their <strongs number="7307">anger</strongs>was <strongs number="7503">abated</strongs><strongs number="4480 5921">toward</strongs>him, when he had <strongs number="1696">said</strongs><strongs number="2088">that</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='4'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="935">came</strongs>to <strongs number="3383">Jordan</strongs>, <em> and </em>passed <strongs number="5674">over</strongs>, <strongs number="1931">he</strongs>, and the <strongs number="7969">three</strongs><strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs><strongs number="376">men</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em><strongs number="854">with</strongs>him, <strongs number="5889">faint</strongs>, yet <strongs number="7291">pursuing</strongs><em> them </em>. </verse>
      <verse number='5'>And he <strongs number="559">said</strongs>unto the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs>, <strongs number="5414">Give</strongs>, I pray <strongs number="4994">you</strongs>, <strongs number="3603">loaves</strongs>of <strongs number="3899">bread</strongs>unto the <strongs number="5971">people</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><strongs number="7272">follow</strongs>me; <strongs number="3588">for</strongs><strongs number="1992">they</strongs><em> be </em><strongs number="5889">faint</strongs>, and <strongs number="595">I</strongs>am <strongs number="7291">pursuing</strongs><strongs number="310">after</strongs><strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs>, <strongs number="4428">kings</strongs>of <strongs number="4080">Midian</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='6'>And the <strongs number="8269">princes</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs>, <em> Are </em>the <strongs number="3709">hands</strongs>of <strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs><strongs number="6258">now</strongs>in thine <strongs number="3027">hand</strongs>, <strongs number="3588">that</strongs>we should <strongs number="5414">give</strongs><strongs number="3899">bread</strongs>unto thine <strongs number="6635">army</strongs>? </verse>
      <verse number='7'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs>, <strongs number="3651">Therefore</strongs>when the <strongs number="3068">LORD</strongs>hath <strongs number="5414">delivered</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs>into mine <strongs number="3027">hand</strongs>, then I will <strongs number="1758">tear</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>your <strongs number="1320">flesh</strongs><strongs number="854">with</strongs>the <strongs number="6975">thorns</strongs>of the <strongs number="4057">wilderness</strongs>and <strongs number="854">with</strongs><strongs number="1303">briers</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='8'>And he went <strongs number="5927">up</strongs><strongs number="4480 8033">thence</strongs>to <strongs number="6439">Penuel</strongs>, and <strongs number="1696">spoke</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>them <strongs number="2063">likewise</strongs>: and the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="6439">Penuel</strongs><strongs number="6030">answered</strongs>him <strongs number="834">as</strongs>the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs>had <strongs number="6030">answered</strongs><em> him </em>. </verse>
      <verse number='9'>And he <strongs number="559">spoke</strongs><strongs number="1571">also</strongs>unto the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="6439">Penuel</strongs>, <strongs number="559">saying</strongs>, When I come <strongs number="7725">again</strongs>in <strongs number="7965">peace</strongs>, I will break <strongs number="5422">down</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="2088">this</strongs><strongs number="4026">tower</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='10'>Now <strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs><em> were </em>in <strongs number="7174">Karkor</strongs>, and their <strongs number="4264">hosts</strongs><strongs number="5973">with</strongs>them, about <strongs number="2568 6240">fifteen</strongs><strongs number="505">thousand</strongs><em> men </em>, <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>that were <strongs number="3498">left</strongs>of <strongs number="4480 3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="4264">hosts</strongs>of the <strongs number="1121">children</strongs>of the <strongs number="6924">east</strongs>: for there <strongs number="5307">fell</strongs>a <strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs>and <strongs number="6242">twenty</strongs><strongs number="505">thousand</strongs><strongs number="376">men</strongs>that <strongs number="8025">drew</strongs><strongs number="2719">sword</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='11'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>went <strongs number="5927">up</strongs>by the <strongs number="1870">way</strongs>of them that <strongs number="7931">dwelt</strongs>in <strongs number="168">tents</strongs>on the <strongs number="4480 6924">east</strongs>of <strongs number="5025">Nobah</strongs>and <strongs number="3011">Jogbehah</strongs>, and <strongs number="5221">smote</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="4264">host</strongs>: for the <strongs number="4264">host</strongs><strongs number="1961">was</strongs><strongs number="983">secure</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='12'>And when <strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs><strongs number="5127">fled</strongs>, he <strongs number="7291">pursued</strongs><strongs number="310">after</strongs>them, and <strongs number="3920">took</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="8147">two</strongs><strongs number="4428">kings</strongs>of <strongs number="4080">Midian</strongs>, <strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs>, and <strongs number="2729">discomfited</strongs><strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="4264">host</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='13'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>of <strongs number="3101">Joash</strongs><strongs number="7725">returned</strongs><strongs number="4480">from</strongs><strongs number="4421">battle</strongs><strongs number="4480 4608">before</strongs>the <strongs number="2775">sun</strongs><em> was </em><em> up </em>, </verse>
      <verse number='14'>And <strongs number="3920">caught</strongs>a young <strongs number="5288">man</strongs>of the <strongs number="4480 376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs>, and <strongs number="7592">inquired</strongs>of him: and he <strongs number="3789">described</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>him <strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="8269">princes</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs>, and the <strongs number="2205">elders</strongs>thereof, <em> even </em>threescore and <strongs number="7657 7651">seventeen</strongs><strongs number="376">men</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='15'>And he <strongs number="935">came</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs>, and <strongs number="559">said</strongs>, <strongs number="2009">Behold</strongs><strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs>, with <strongs number="834">whom</strongs>ye did <strongs number="2778">upbraid</strongs>me, <strongs number="559">saying</strongs>, <em> Are </em>the <strongs number="3709">hands</strongs>of <strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs><strongs number="6258">now</strongs>in thine <strongs number="3027">hand</strongs>, <strongs number="3588">that</strongs>we should <strongs number="5414">give</strongs><strongs number="3899">bread</strongs>unto thy <strongs number="376">men</strongs><em> that </em><em> are </em><strongs number="3287">weary</strongs>? </verse>
      <verse number='16'>And he <strongs number="3947">took</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="2205">elders</strongs>of the <strongs number="5892">city</strongs>, and <strongs number="6975">thorns</strongs>of the <strongs number="4057">wilderness</strongs>and <strongs number="1303">briers</strongs>, and with them he <strongs number="3045">taught</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="5523">Succoth</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='17'>And he beat <strongs number="5422">down</strongs>the <strongs number="4026">tower</strongs>of <strongs number="6439">Penuel</strongs>, and <strongs number="2026">slew</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of the <strongs number="5892">city</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='18'>Then <strongs number="559">said</strongs>he <strongs number="413">unto</strongs><strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs>, What <strongs number="375">manner</strongs>of <strongs number="376">men</strongs><em> were </em><em> they </em><strongs number="834">whom</strongs>ye <strongs number="2026">slew</strongs>at <strongs number="8396">Tabor</strongs>? And they <strongs number="559">answered</strongs>, As <strongs number="3644">thou</strongs><em> art </em>, so <em> were </em>they; each <strongs number="259">one</strongs><strongs number="8389">resembled</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">children</strongs>of a <strongs number="4428">king</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='19'>And he <strongs number="559">said</strongs>, <strongs number="1992">They</strongs><em> were </em>my <strongs number="251">brethren</strongs>, <em> even </em>the <strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>of my <strongs number="517">mother</strongs>: <em> as </em>the <strongs number="3068">LORD</strongs><strongs number="2416">liveth</strongs>, <strongs number="3863">if</strongs>ye had saved them <strongs number="2421 *853">alive</strongs>, I would <strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="2026">slay</strongs>you. </verse>
      <verse number='20'>And he <strongs number="559">said</strongs>unto <strongs number="3500">Jether</strongs>his <strongs number="1060">firstborn</strongs>, <strongs number="6965">Up</strongs>, <em> and </em><strongs number="2026">slay</strongs>them. But the <strongs number="5288">youth</strongs><strongs number="8025">drew</strongs><strongs number="3808">not</strongs>his <strongs number="2719">sword</strongs>: <strongs number="3588">for</strongs>he <strongs number="3372">feared</strongs>, <strongs number="3588">because</strongs>he <em> was </em><strongs number="5750">yet</strongs>a <strongs number="5288">youth</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='21'>Then <strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs>, <strongs number="6965">Rise</strongs><strongs number="859">thou</strongs>, and <strongs number="6293">fall</strongs>upon us: <strongs number="3588">for</strongs>as the <strongs number="376">man</strongs><em> is, </em><em> so </em><em> is </em>his <strongs number="1369">strength</strongs>. And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="6965">arose</strongs>, and <strongs number="2026">slew</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs><strongs number="2078">Zebah</strongs>and <strongs number="6759">Zalmunna</strongs>, and took <strongs number="3947">away</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="7720">ornaments</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em>on their <strongs number="1581">camels</strongs>' <strongs number="6677">necks</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='22'>Then the <strongs number="376">men</strongs>of <strongs number="3478">Israel</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs><strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>, <strongs number="4910">Rule</strongs>thou over us, <strongs number="1571">both</strongs><strongs number="859">thou</strongs>, <strongs number="1571">and</strongs>thy <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>, and thy <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>'s <strongs number="1121">son</strongs><strongs number="1571">also</strongs>: <strongs number="3588">for</strongs>thou hast <strongs number="3467">delivered</strongs>us from the <strongs number="4480 3027">hand</strongs>of <strongs number="4080">Midian</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='23'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>them, <strongs number="589">I</strongs>will <strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="4910">rule</strongs>over you, <strongs number="3808">neither</strongs>shall my <strongs number="1121">son</strongs><strongs number="4910">rule</strongs>over you: the <strongs number="3068">LORD</strongs>shall <strongs number="4910">rule</strongs>over you. </verse>
      <verse number='24'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="559">said</strongs><strongs number="413">unto</strongs>them, I would <strongs number="7592">desire</strongs>a <strongs number="7596">request</strongs><strongs number="4480">of</strongs>you, that ye would <strongs number="5414">give</strongs>me every <strongs number="376">man</strongs>the <strongs number="5141">earrings</strongs>of his <strongs number="7998">prey</strongs>. ( <strongs number="3588">For</strongs>they had <strongs number="2091">golden</strongs><strongs number="5141">earrings</strongs>, <strongs number="3588">because</strongs><strongs number="1992">they</strongs><em> were </em><strongs number="3459">Ishmaelites</strongs>.) </verse>
      <verse number='25'>And they <strongs number="559">answered</strongs>, We will willingly <strongs number="5414 5414">give</strongs><em> them </em>. And they <strongs number="6566">spread</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>a <strongs number="8071">garment</strongs>, and did <strongs number="7993">cast</strongs><strongs number="8033">therein</strongs>every <strongs number="376">man</strongs>the <strongs number="5141">earrings</strongs>of his <strongs number="7998">prey</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='26'>And the <strongs number="4948">weight</strongs>of the <strongs number="2091">golden</strongs><strongs number="5141">earrings</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs>he <strongs number="7592">requested</strongs><strongs number="1961">was</strongs>a <strongs number="505">thousand</strongs>and <strongs number="7651">seven</strongs><strongs number="3967">hundred</strongs><em> shekels </em>of <strongs number="2091">gold</strongs>; <strongs number="905 4480">beside</strongs><strongs number="7720">ornaments</strongs>, and <strongs number="5188">collars</strongs>, and <strongs number="713">purple</strongs><strongs number="899">raiment</strongs>that <em> was </em><strongs number="7945 5921">on</strongs>the <strongs number="4428">kings</strongs>of <strongs number="4080">Midian</strongs>, and <strongs number="905 4480">beside</strongs>the <strongs number="6060">chains</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> were </em>about their <strongs number="1581">camels</strongs>' <strongs number="6677">necks</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='27'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="6213">made</strongs>an <strongs number="646">ephod</strongs>thereof, and <strongs number="3322">put</strongs>it in his <strongs number="5892">city</strongs>, <em> even </em>in <strongs number="6084">Ophrah</strongs>: and <strongs number="3605">all</strongs><strongs number="3478">Israel</strongs>went thither a <strongs number="2181 8033">whoring</strongs><strongs number="310">after</strongs>it: which thing <strongs number="1961">became</strongs>a <strongs number="4170">snare</strongs>unto <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>, and to his <strongs number="1004">house</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='28'>Thus was <strongs number="4080">Midian</strongs><strongs number="3665">subdued</strongs><strongs number="6440">before</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">children</strongs>of <strongs number="3478">Israel</strongs>, so that they lifted <strongs number="5375">up</strongs>their <strongs number="7218">heads</strongs><strongs number="3808">no</strongs><strongs number="3254">more</strongs>. And the <strongs number="776">country</strongs>was in <strongs number="8252">quietness</strongs><strongs number="705">forty</strongs><strongs number="8141">years</strongs>in the <strongs number="3117">days</strongs>of <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='29'>And <strongs number="3378">Jerubbaal</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>of <strongs number="3101">Joash</strongs><strongs number="1980">went</strongs>and <strongs number="3427">dwelt</strongs>in his own <strongs number="1004">house</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='30'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs><strongs number="1961">had</strongs>threescore and <strongs number="7657">ten</strongs><strongs number="1121">sons</strongs>of his <strongs number="3409">body</strongs><strongs number="3318">begotten</strongs>: <strongs number="3588">for</strongs>he <strongs number="1961">had</strongs><strongs number="7227">many</strongs><strongs number="802">wives</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='31'>And his <strongs number="6370">concubine</strongs><strongs number="834">that</strongs><em> was </em>in <strongs number="7927">Shechem</strongs>, <strongs number="1931">she</strongs><strongs number="1571">also</strongs><strongs number="3205">bore</strongs>him a <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>, <strongs number="*853"></strongs>whose <strongs number="8034">name</strongs>he <strongs number="7760">called</strongs><strongs number="40">Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='32'>And <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>the <strongs number="1121">son</strongs>of <strongs number="3101">Joash</strongs><strongs number="4191">died</strongs>in a <strongs number="2896">good</strongs>old <strongs number="7872">age</strongs>, and was <strongs number="6912">buried</strongs>in the <strongs number="6913">sepulcher</strongs>of <strongs number="3101">Joash</strongs>his <strongs number="1">father</strongs>, in <strongs number="6084">Ophrah</strongs>of the <strongs number="33">Abi</strongs>-ezrites. </verse>
      <verse number='33'>And it came to <strongs number="1961">pass</strongs>, as soon <strongs number="834">as</strongs><strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>was <strongs number="4191">dead</strongs>, that the <strongs number="1121">children</strongs>of <strongs number="3478">Israel</strongs>turned <strongs number="7725">again</strongs>, and went a <strongs number="2181">whoring</strongs><strongs number="310">after</strongs><strongs number="1168">Baalim</strongs>, and <strongs number="7760">made</strongs><strongs number="1170">Baal</strongs>-berith their <strongs number="430">god</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='34'>And the <strongs number="1121">children</strongs>of <strongs number="3478">Israel</strongs><strongs number="2142">remembered</strongs><strongs number="3808">not</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>the <strongs number="3068">LORD</strongs>their <strongs number="430">God</strongs>, who had <strongs number="5337">delivered</strongs><strongs number="*853"></strongs>them out of the <strongs number="4480 3027">hands</strongs>of <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>their <strongs number="341">enemies</strongs>on every <strongs number="4480 5439">side</strongs>: </verse>
      <verse number='35'><strongs number="3808">Neither</strongs><strongs number="6213">showed</strongs>they <strongs number="2617">kindness</strongs><strongs number="5973">to</strongs>the <strongs number="1004">house</strongs>of <strongs number="3378">Jerubbaal</strongs>, <em> namely </em>, <strongs number="1439">Gideon</strongs>, according to <strongs number="3605">all</strongs>the <strongs number="2896">goodness</strongs><strongs number="834">which</strongs>he had <strongs number="6213">showed</strongs><strongs number="5973">unto</strongs><strongs number="3478">Israel</strongs>. </verse>
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