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Adonai said to him, "Because I will be with you, you will strike down Midyan as easily as if they were just one man."

Gid‘on realized that he was the angel of Adonai and said, "Oh no! My Lord! Adonai ! Because I've seen the angel of Adonai face-to-face!"

Gid‘on took ten of his servants and did what Adonai had told him to do. He didn't do it by day, because he was afraid of the men in his father's household and those from the city, so he did it at night.

"Bring out your son," the men of the city demanded of Yo'ash, "so that he may die, because he destroyed the altar of Ba‘al and cut down the sacred pole next to it!"

Therefore on that day Gid‘on was given the name Yeruba‘al [let Ba‘al defend], because they said, "Let Ba‘al defend himself against him, since he destroyed his altar."

But Gid‘on said to God, "Don't be angry with me because I am asking one more thing, let me make one more test, please: this time let it be dry only on the fleece, with dew all over the ground."

Adonai said to Gid‘on, "There are too many people with you for me to hand Midyan over to them, because I don't want Isra'el to be able to boast against me, ‘We saved ourselves by our own strength.'

That night Adonai said to him, "Get up and attack the camp, because I have handed it over to you.

When Gid‘on heard the dream and its interpretation, he fell on his knees in worship. Then he returned to the camp of Isra'el and said, "Get up! because Adonai has handed Midyan's army over to you."

In Sukkot he asked the people there, "Please give some loaves of bread to the men following me, because they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zevach and Tzalmuna the kings of Midyan."

The men of Isra'el said to Gid‘on: "Rule over us, you, your son and your grandson, because you saved us from the power of Midyan.

Gid‘on became the father of seventy sons, because he had many wives.

He went back to his father's house in ‘Ofrah and killed his brothers the sons of Yeruba‘al, all seventy of them, on a single rock, except for Yotam Yeruba‘al's youngest son, who stayed alive because he hid himself.

and now you are rebelling against my father's household. You've killed his seventy sons on a single stone and made Avimelekh, the son of his slave-girl, king over the men of Sh'khem, because he's your brother.

had other sons by his wife; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Yiftach away and told him, "You will not inherit from our father, because you are another woman's son."

The king of ‘Amon answered the messengers of Yiftach, "Because Isra'el took away my territory when they came up from Egypt. They took everything from the Arnon to the Yabok and the Yarden. Now, restore it peacefully."

She said to him, "Father, you made a vow to Adonai ; so do whatever you said you would do to me; because Adonai did take vengeance on your enemies the people of ‘Amon."

Then she said to her father, "Just do this one thing for me — let me be alone for two months. I'll go away into the mountains with my friends and mourn, because I will die without getting married."

Then Yiftach gathered together all the men of Gil‘ad and fought with Efrayim, and the men of Gil‘ad defeated Efrayim; because they were saying, "You Gil‘ad men who live in Efrayim and M'nasheh have deserted Efrayim!"

they would tell him to say "Shibbolet." If he said, "Sibbolet," because he could not make his mouth pronounce it right, they took hold of him and killed him on the spot at the Yarden crossing; at that time 42,000 men of Efrayim died.