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28 And Midian was subdued before the Israelites,[a] and they did not again lift up their head, and the land rested for forty years in the days of Gideon.

The Death of Gideon

29 Jerub-Baal son of Joash lived in his own house. 30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring,[b] for he had many wives. 31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore for him a son, and he named him[c] Abimelech. 32 And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Jehoash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:28 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Judges 8:30 Literally “from his own loins”
  3. Judges 8:31 Literally “he set his name”
  4. Judges 8:32 Hebrew “Abiezrite”