1 Samuel 12:11; Judges 6:32; Nehemiah 5:14; Nehemiah 5:15
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...
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Jerubbaal ... went and dwelt in his own house. Bochart conjectures that Gideo...
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. T...
Jerubbaal ] i.e. Gideon: see Judges 6:32 . 33-35 The Israelites lapse into idolatry after Gideon's death. For the expression ten thousand, cp...
Jerubbaal. — The sudden reversion to this name may be significant. Baal had failed to “plead,” but nevertheless Gideon was not safe from idolatrous...
ABIMELECH AND JOTHAM Judges 8:29-35 ; Judges 9:1-57 THE history we are tracing moves from man to man; the personal influence of the hero is ev...
“Through Slaughter to a Throne” Judges 8:29-35 ; Judges 9:1-6 The Children of Israel were guilty of great fickleness and instability. They soo...
Following the deliverance from the oppression of Midian, Gideon had to deal with internal troubles. The people of Ephraim objected that he had not ca...
The retired state of Gideon, after the Lord had blessed Israel through his instrumentality, may serve to teach the believer the humbleness of mind be...
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash ,.... That is, Gideon, Jerubbaal being another name of his; see Judges 6:32 went and dwelt in his own house; which...
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Ver. 29. Went and dwelt in his own house. ] As finding by experience, that high se...
Dwelt in his own house Not in his father's house, as he did before; nor yet in a court like a king, as the people desired; but in a middle state, a...
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 h...
Israel's Return to Idolatry. B. C. 1249. ...
Not in his father's house, as he did before; nor yet in a court, like a king, as the people desired; but in a middle state, as a judge, for the prese...
The Final Days of Gideon ( Judges 8:29-35 ). Judges 8:29 ‘ And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.' He was now accep...
CHAPTER 8 FINAL DEALING WITH THE ENEMY—GIDEON’S LAST DAYS. Judges 8:18-35 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 8:18 . Then said he , etc.] This must have...
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 n...
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 t...
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 enti...
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Gideon at his worst Man is a strange mixture of greatness and of littleness, of...
EXPOSITION Judges 8:22 , Judges 8:23 Rule thou , etc. The gratitude of Israel to their great deliverer, added to a sense that it woul...
The Consequences of the Campaign
And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went and dwelt in his own house, retired to the outward position of a private person.
His own house — Not in his father's house; as he did before; nor yet in a court like a king, as the people desired; but in a middle state, as a jud...
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.