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Verse Judges 8:23. _THE LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU_] Few with such power
at their command would have acted as Gideon. His speech calls them
back to their first principles, and should have excited in the...
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CHAPTER 8 INTERNAL STRIFE, GIDEON'S FAILURE AND END
_ 1. The strife (Judges 8:1)_
2. The complete deliverance (Judges 8:10)
3. Gideon's failure and end (Judges 8:22)
4. Israel's failure after Gide...
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GIDEON REFUSES A KINGDOM, AND ERECTS AN EPHOD. Long before the
Israelites had any human kings. Yahweh was regarded as their Divine
King, and Gideon, like Samuel (1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 10:19; 1 Samuel...
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_Gideon refuses the kingship: he sets up an ephod: conclusion_
22 _.the men of Israel_ Not the 300 of Judges 8:4, but the men who
formed the army Judges 7:14; Judges 9:55, the Israelites drawn from
Ep...
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_I will not rule over you_ But ch. 9 implies that Gideon did exercise
some kind of supremacy, at any rate in his own district, and his sons
claimed to inherit his position, Judges 9:2. These words, th...
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_Gideon Captures and Slays Midian's Kings Judges 8:1-28_
And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus,
that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the
Midianites?...
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_AND GIDEON SAID UNTO THEM, I WILL NOT RULE OVER YOU, NEITHER SHALL MY
SON RULE OVER YOU: THE LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU._
The Lord shall rule over you. Their unbounded admiration and
gratitude prompte...
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HISTORY OF THE JUDGES (JUDGES 3:5 TO JUDGES 16:31)
On this, the main section of the book, see Intro. § 2 and List of
Oppressions and Judges. The larger part of the book is concerned with
six of the Ju...
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LOCKED] i.e. bolted (as in the East at present)....
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 8
V1 The people in Ephraim’s *tribe asked Gideon, ‘Why have you
done this to us? Why did you not call us when you went to fight the
people from Midi...
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THE LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU. — Numbers 23:21; Deuteronomy 33:5; 1
Samuel 6:12. Gideon refused the splendid temptation of an hereditary
crown, though, in strict accordance with Divine guidance, he was...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ גִּדְעֹ֔ון לֹֽא
־אֶמְשֹׁ֤ל...
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GIDEON THE ECCLESIASTIC
Judges 8:22
THE great victory of Gideon had this special significance, that it
ended the incursions of the wandering races of the desert. Canaan
offered a continual lure to th...
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THE SNARE OF SUCCESS
Judges 8:13
Clearly Gideon's family had passed through some terrible tragedy
previous to this war of emancipation. He had not learned our Lord's
teaching of forgiveness and acted...
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Following the deliverance from the oppression of Midian, Gideon had to
deal with internal troubles. The people of Ephraim objected that he
had not called them to his help. The men of Succoth and Penue...
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Israel tried to set up Gideon and his descendants after him as king
over them. Gideon's answer is significant. "I will not rule over you,
nor shall my son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you....
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By Gideon ' s answer, it evidently appears, that there was a spirit of
idolatry in Israel: they desired, like the nations around, a king,
thereby denying the government of God. If you consult these
sc...
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The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of
His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their
practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
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Nevertheless, they did not all unite with Gideon in pursuit of the
Midianites. But, for the moment, Gideon despises the cowardice which
disowns him through a remaining fear of the oppressor's power. O...
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AND GIDEON SAID UNTO THEM, I WILL NOT RULE OVER YOU,.... Not that he
declined the government of them as a judge, to which he was raised of
God, but as a king, for which he had no authority and call fr...
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And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my
son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
Ver. 23. _I will not rule over you._] Since I cannot without manifest
wrong done...
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_I will not rule over you_ As a king. He rejected their offer, because
he looked upon God as their king, who appointed what deputy he pleased
to govern them; and because he considered this proposal as...
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1 Gideon pacifieth the Ephraimites.
4 Succoth and Penuel refuse to relieue Gideons army.
10 Zebah and Zalmunna are taken.
13 Succoth and Penuel are destroyed.
17 Gideon reuengeth his brethrens dea...
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And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my
son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you. Gideon did not feel
himself called upon to found a royal dynasty in Israel, but c...
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE CAMPAIGN...
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GRIEVOUS WORDS AND A SOFT ANSWER
(vv. 1-3)
But the men of Ephraim were resentful that Gideon had called them so
late rather than when he began his campaign against Midian (v.1). They
did not stop to...
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22-28 Gideon refused the government the people offered him. No good
man can be pleased with any honour done to himself, which belongs only
to God. Gideon thought to keep up the remembrance of this vi...
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I WILL NOT RULE OVER YOU, to wit, as a king, which you desire. THE
LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU, in a special manner, as he hath hitherto
done, by judges, whom God did particularly appoint and direct, eve...
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‘ And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall
my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.'
There are good grounds for thinking that in fact this was a speech of
acceptance c...
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Judges 6-8
In the first words of Gideon we find the key to his character. (1) He
was a man who felt deeply the degradation of his people. He could not
enjoy his own harvest while the Midianites were r...
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CONTENTS: Jealousy of Ephriam. Events to the death of Gideon.
Apostasy.
CHARACTERS: God, Gideon, Zebah, Zalmunna, Abimelech, Jerubbaal,
Jether.
CONCLUSION: Many are led into false ways by one false...
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Judges 8:16. _He taught the men of Succoth._ The LXX read, _he
threshed_ them. This little city of forty or fifty families was
blinded, in giving this answer to Gideon. Soldiers fighting for their
cou...
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_Rule thou over us _. .. _ for thou hast delivered us._
GIDEON’S AFTER-LIFE
Many a man does well in times of difficulty and danger who fails
entirely in prosperity. It remains for us to see whether G...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 8:22 Despite God’s faithfulness to Gideon,
he leads the people into improper worship practices.
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CHAPTER 8
_FINAL DEALING WITH THE ENEMY—GIDEON’S LAST DAYS. Judges 8:18_
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 8:18. THEN SAID HE, etc.] This must have
taken place when Gideon arrived at home; for it was after his...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 8:22, JUDGES 8:23
RULE THOU, etc. The gratitude of Israel to their great deliverer,
added to a sense that it would be for their own security, and to a
desire, already perhaps beginn...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Judges, chapter eight?
The Ephraimites were troublemakers. And in chapter eight we find them
giving Gideon a bad time. But we see with what splendid diplomac...
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1 Peter 5:3; 1 Samuel 10:19; 1 Samuel 12:12; 1 Samuel 8:6; 1 Samuel
8:7
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I will not rule — As a king. The Lord shall rule — In a special
manner, as he hath hitherto done, by judges, whom God particularly
appointed and directed, even by Urim and Thummim, and assisted upon
a...