World English Bible
Judges 8:23
“Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”
Verse in context — Judges 8
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.
Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.
Gideon said to them, "I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
They answered, "We will willingly give them." They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his spoil into it.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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