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DomarbokenKapitel 8

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The men of Ephraim said to Gideon, "Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they quarreled with him bitterly.
But he answered them, "What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren't Ephraim's gleanings better than Abiezer's whole harvest?
God gave the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?" When he said this, their anger against him subsided.
Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the three hundred men with him, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give some loaves of bread to the men who are following me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
But the officials of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your grasp, that we should give bread to your army?"
Gideon replied, "Very well. When the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will thresh your flesh with desert thorns and briers."
From there he went up to Penuel and made the same request of them, and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had.
So he said to the men of Penuel as well, "When I return in peace, I will tear down this tower."
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the entire army of the people of the East; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
Gideon went up by the route of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, catching it off guard.
Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, throwing their whole army into panic.
Then Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.
He caught a young man from Succoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials and elders of Succoth.
Then Gideon came to the men of Succoth and said, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your grasp, that we should give bread to your exhausted men?'"
So he took the elders of the city, and with desert thorns and briers he punished the men of Succoth.
Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What sort of men did you kill at Tabor?" "Men like you," they answered, "each one with the bearing of a king's son."
Turning to Jether, his firstborn, he said, "Get up and kill them!" But the boy did not draw his sword; he was afraid, because he was still only a boy.
Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Get up and strike us down yourself. As the man is, so is his strength." So Gideon stood up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from their camels' necks.
The Israelites said to Gideon, "Rule over us—you, your son, and your grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian."
Then Gideon said, "I do have one request: that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder." (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
The weight of the gold earrings he had asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the crescent ornaments, the pendants, and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, or the chains that were on their camels' necks.
Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he set up in his town, in Ophrah. And all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
So Midian was subdued before the Israelites and lifted its head no more. And the land had peace for forty years, during the days of Gideon.
Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites turned back and prostituted themselves with the Baals, setting up Baal-Berith as their god.
They did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
Nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal—Gideon—in keeping with all the good he had done for Israel.
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