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the men of Succoth, Giue, I pray you, morsels of ornamentes, that were on their camels neckes.
bread vnto the people that follow me (for they 22 Then the men of Israel sayd vnto Gideon,
be wearie) that I may follow after Zebah, and Reigne thou ouer vs, both thou, and thy sonne,
Zalmunna Kings of Midian. 6 And the princes and thy sonnes sonne: for thou hast deliuered vs
of Succoth sayde, Are the handes of Zebah and out of the hand of Midian. 23 And Gideon sayde
Zalmunna nowe in thine hads, that we should vnto them, I will not reigne ouer you, neither
giue bread vnto thine army? Gideon then sayde, shall my childe reigne ouer you, but the Lord
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Therefore when the Lord hath deliuered Zebah shall reigne ouer you. 24 Againe Gideon sayd vnto
and Zalmunna into mine hand, I will teare your them, I would desire a request of you, that you
flesh with thornes of the wildernes and with would giue mee euery man the earings of his pray
breers. 8 And he went vp thence to Penuel, and (for they had golden earings because they were
spake vnto them likewise, and the men of Penuel Ismaelites) 25 And they answered, Wee will giue
answered him, as the men of Succoth answered. them. And they spred a garment, and did cast
9 And he sayd also vnto the men of Penuel, When 26
I come againe in peace, I will breake downe therein euery man the earings of his pray. And
this towre. 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were the weight of the golden earings that he required,
in Karkor, and their hostes with them, about was a thousande and seuen hundreth shekels
fifteene thousande, all that were left of all the of golde, beside collers and iewels, and purple
hostes of them of the East: for there was slaine an rayment that was on the kings of Midian, and
hundreth and twentie thousand men, that drew beside the cheynes that were about their camels
swordes. 11 And Gideon went through them that neckes. 27 And Gideon made an Ephod thereof,
dwelt in Tabernacles on the East side of Nobah and put it in Ophrah his citie: and all Israel went a
and Iogbehah, and smote the hoste: for the hoste whoring there after it, which was the destruction
was carelesse. 12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna of Gideon and his house. 28 Thus was Midian
fled, hee followed after them, and tooke the brought lowe before the children of Israel, so
two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and that they lift vp their heads no more: and the
discomfited all the hoste. 13 So Gideon the sonne
ofIoashreturnedfrombattel, thesunnebeingyet countrey was in quietnes fourtie yeeres in the
hie, 14 And tooke a seruant of the me of Succoth, dayes of Gideon. 29 Then Ierubbaal the sonne of
and inquired of him: and he wrote to him the Ioash went, and dwelt in his owne house. 30 And
princes of Succoth and the Elders thereof, euen Gideon had seuentie sonnes begotten of his body:
seuentie and seuen men. 15 And he came vnto for he had many wiues. 31 And his concubine that
the men of Succoth, and sayd, Behold Zebah and was in Shechem, bare him a sonne also, whose
Zalmunna, by whome ye vpbrayded me, saying, name he called Abimelech. 32 So Gideon the
sonne of Ioash dyed in a good age, and was buried
Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in in the sepulchre of Ioash his father in Ophrah,
thine hands, that we should giue bread vnto thy of the father of ye Ezrites. 33 But when Gideon
weary men? 16 Then he tooke the Elders of the was dead, the children of Israel turned away and
citie, and thornes of the wildernes and breers,
and did teare the men of Succoth with them. went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-
17 Also he brake downe the towre of Penuel, and berith their God. 34 And the children of Israel
slew the men of the citie. 18 Then saide he vnto remembred not the Lord their God, which had
Zebah and Zalmunna, What maner of men were deliuered the out of the hands of all their enemies
they, whom ye slew at Tabor? and they answered, on euery side. 35 Neither shewed they mercy on
As thou art, so were they: euery one was like the the house of Ierubbaal, or Gideon, according to al
children of a King. 19 And he said, They were the goodnesse which he had shewed vnto Israel.
my brethren, euen my mothers children: as the
Lord liueth, if ye had saued their liues, I would 9
not slay you. 20 Then he sayde vnto Iether his
first borne sonne, Vp, and slay them: but the 1 Then Abimelech the sonne of Ierubbaal went
boy drew not his sword: for he feared, because to Shechem vnto his mothers brethren, and com-
muned with them, and with all the familie, and
he was yet yong. 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna house of his mothers father, saying, Say, I pray
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sayd, Rise thou, and fall vpon vs: for as the man you, in the audience of all the men of Shechem,
is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and Whether is better for you, that all the sonnes
slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and tooke away the of Ierubbaal, which are seuentie persons, reigne