Hakim-hakim 8:28

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Demikianlah orang Midian tunduk kepada orang Israel dan tidak dapat menegakkan kepalanya lagi; maka amanlah negeri itu empat puluh tahun lamanya pada zaman Gideon.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Demikianlah orang Midian tunduk kepada orang Israel dan tidak dapat menegakkan kepalanya lagi; maka amanlah negeri itu empat puluh tahun lamanya pada zaman Gideon.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Demikianlah peri dialahkannya orang Midian di hadapan segala bani Israel, sehingga tiada mereka itu mengangkat kepalanya kembali, maka sentosalah negeri itu empat puluh tahun lamanya pada zaman Gideon itu.

Contextual Overview

²² Then the men of Israel sayde vnto Gedeon: Raigne thou ouer vs, both thou, thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne, for thou hast deliuered vs out of ye hand of Madian. ²³ And Gedeon sayd vnto them: I wyll not raigne ouer you, neither shall my childe raigne ouer you: but the Lorde shall raigne ouer you. ²⁴ And agayne Gedeon said vnto them: I would desire a request of you, euen that you would geue me euery man the earinges of his pray. For they had golden earinges, because they were Israelites. ²⁵ And they aunswered: We will gyue them. And they spread a mantell, and dyd cast therin euery man the earynges of his pray. ²⁶ And the wayght of ye golden earinges that he required, was a thousand and seuen hundred sicles of golde, besyde chaynes and iewelles, and purple rayment that was on the kynges of Madian, and besyde the chaynes that were about their camels neckes. ²⁷ And Gedeon made an Ephod therof, and put it in his citie Ephrah: And all Israel went a whoryng after it in the same place, which thing became a ruyne vnto Gedeon and to his house. ²⁸ Thus was Madian brought lowe before the children of Israel, so that they lyft vp their heades no more: And the countrey was in quietnes fourtie yeres in the dayes of Gedeon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

was Midian: Psalms 83:9-12, Isaiah 9:4, Isaiah 10:26

forty years: Judges 3:11, Judges 3:30, Judges 5:31

Reciprocal: Joshua 14:15 - And the land Judges 11:26 - three hundred

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel,.... By the hand of Gideon humbled and brought under, their power over Israel was broken, and they delivered out of their hands:

so that they lifted up their heads no more; in a proud and haughty manner to insult them, and in an hostile way to invade and oppress them; such a blow was given them that they could not recover themselves, nor do we read of any effort of theirs ever after, or of their giving or attempting to give any disturbance to Israel, or any other nation:

and the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon; that is, the land of Canaan; it was free from wars with Midian, or any other people, and enjoyed undisturbed peace and tranquillity. According to Bishop Usher m, this was the fortieth year from the rest restored by Deborah and Barak; and, according to Abarbinel and others, these forty years are to be reckoned from the beginning of the servitude; that is, the seven years' oppression under the Midianites are included in them; but I cannot see that in this instance, and in others before met with, years of bondage can be counted with years of peace and prosperity, and go under that general name. The true sense seems to be, that after the Israelites had been in subjection to the Midianites for seven years, and Gideon had delivered them, that from thenceforward they had rest and quietness forty years, which in all probability was the time Gideon lived after his victories.

m Annal. Vet. Test. p. 43.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:28. Forty years in the days of Gideon. — The Midianites were so completely humbled that they could make head no more against Israel during the forty years in which the government of Gideon lasted.