children. sons.
lifted up their heads no more. made no more attempts to vex.
was in quietness. See note on Judges 3:11.
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Judges 8:28
28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.