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Judges 8:20-22
Living Bible
Judges 8:20-22
Living Bible
20 Then, turning to Jether, his oldest son, he instructed him to kill them. But the boy was only a lad and was afraid to.
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “You do it; we’d rather be killed by a man!”[a] So Gideon killed them and took the ornaments from their camels’ necks.
22 Now the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Be our king! You and your sons and all your descendants shall be our rulers, for you have saved us from Midian.”
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- Judges 8:21 we’d rather be killed by a man, literally, “for as a man is, so is his strength.” Perhaps the meaning is, “A quick death is less painful.”
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