Hakim-hakim 8:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu kata Gideon: "Saudara-saudarakulah itu, anak-anak ibuku! Demi TUHAN yang hidup, seandainya kamu membiarkan mereka hidup, aku tidak akan membunuh kamu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu kata Gideon: "Saudara-saudarakulah itu, anak-anak ibuku! Demi TUHAN yang hidup, seandainya kamu membiarkan mereka hidup, aku tidak akan membunuh kamu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata Gideon: Ia itulah saudara-saudaraku yang seibu dengan aku; demi Tuhan alhayat, jikalau kiranya kamu telah menghidupi dia, niscaya tiada aku membunuh kamu.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ And then sayde he vnto Zebah and Zalmana: What maner of men were they whom ye slue at Thabor? And they aunswered: The lykenesse of thee and them is al one, eue after the fashion of the children of a kyng. ¹⁹ And he sayd, They were my brethren, euen my mothers children: As truly as the Lord liueth, if ye had saued their lyues, I would not slay you. ²⁰ And he sayde vnto Iether his eldest sonne, Up and slay them. But the ladde drue not his sworde: for he feared, because he was yet young. ²¹ Then Zebah and Zalmana sayde: Ryse thou, and fall vpon vs: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gedeon arose, and slue Zebah and Zalmana, and toke away the ornamentes that were on their camels neckes.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Ruth 3:13 - the Lord liveth 1 Kings 1:29 - As the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, they were my brethren, even the sons of my mother,.... His brethren by his mother's side, but not by his father's side; or the phrase

the sons of my mother is added, to show that he did not mean brethren in a large sense, as all the Israelites were, but in a strict sense, being so nearly related as his mother's children:

as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you; for not being Canaanites, he was not obliged by the law of God to put them to death, and by the law of nations, as they had surrendered themselves, and were made prisoners of war, they ought to have been saved; but as they appeared to be murderers, and had slain the Israelites in cold blood, they deserved to die; and the persons they had slain being Gideon's brethren, he was the avenger of blood, and it became him to put them to death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sons of my mother - A much closer relation than that of brothers by the father only. (Compare Genesis 43:29; Deuteronomy 13:6; Psalms 69:8). This is the only hint preserved of the transaction. We cannot say exactly when the slaughter of Gideon’s brethren on Mount Tabor took place, whether before the outbreak of the war Judges 6:33, or in the retreat and flight of the Midianites Judges 7:22.