Treasury of Scripture
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Judges 9:5,16-19 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being three score and ten persons...
Ecclesiastes 9:14,15 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it...
Jerubbaal. Rather, Jerubbaal Gideon; as we say, Simon Peter; or call a person by his Christian and surname. Gideon was a mighty man of valour, a true patriot, evidently disinterested and void of ambition. He loved his country, and hazarded his life for it; but refused the kingdom, when offered to him and his heirs. The act of making the ephod was totally wrong; yet, probably it was done with no reprehensible design.