Judges 8:1

Judges 8:1

Gideon Subdues the Midianites

1 Now ^athe men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you done this to us by not calling us when you went to fight with the Midianites?” And they reprimanded him sharply.

2 So he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the¹ gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of ^aAbiezer?

3 ^aGod has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their ^banger toward him subsided when he said that.

4 When Gideon came ^ato the Jordan, he and ^bthe three hundred men who were with him crossed over, exhausted but still in pursuit.

5 Then he said to the men of ^aSuccoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.”

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Why haft thou, etc. - Why hast thou neglected and despised us, in not calling us in to thy help, as thou didst other tribes? These were a proud people, puffed up with a conceit of their number and strength, and the preference which Jacob gave them above Manasseh, of which tribe Gideon was, who by this act had seemed to advance his own tribe, and to depress theirs.

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