²⁹ Jerub-Baal^(A) son of Joash^(B) went back home to live.

Gideon Defeats the Midianites

7 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal^(A) (that is, Gideon^(B)) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod.^(C) The camp of Midian^(D) was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.^(E)

³² So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal^[a](A) that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”

¹⁴ Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,^(A) when I was appointed to be their governor^(B) in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor. ¹⁵ But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels^[a] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God^(C) I did not act like that.

¹¹ Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal,^[a](A) Barak,^[b](B) Jephthah^(C) and Samuel,^[c](D) and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.