JUDGES CHAPTER 8 The Ephraimites are displeased with Gideon; he satisfies them, Judges 8:1. He pursueth two kings of the Midianites he punisheth those of Succoth and Penuel, Judges 8:4. He revengeth his brethren's death on the two kings, Judges 8:18. He refuseth government, Judges 8:22,23; demandeth a present of the spoil, and thereof makes an ephod; places it in Ophrah; it is a cause of idolatry, Judges 8:24. Gideon's children, wives, death, and burial, Judges 8:30. Israel revolts to idolatry; is ungrateful to Gideon's family, Judges 8:33. Why hast thou neglected and despised us, in not calling us in to thy help, as thou didst other tribes? These were a proud people, Isaiah 11:13, puffed up with a conceit of their number and strength, and the preference which Jacob by Divine direction gave them above Manasseh, Genesis 48:19,20, of which tribe Gideon was, who by this act had seemed to advance his own tribe, and to depress theirs.

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