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Judges 8:32

GideonJoashOphrah
Death and lossOld age

30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

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BSB
Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
KJV
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
WEB
Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
ASV
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
DARBY
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
BLB
And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Joash his father in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
ÅB
Og Gideon, Joas' sønn, døde i høy alder og ble begravet i sin far Joas' grav i Ofra, som tilhørte Abiesers slekt.
OTB
Gideon, sønn av Joasj, døde i en god alderdom og ble lagt til hvile i graven til sin far Joasj i Ofra av Abiesrittene.
B1930
Og Gideon, Joas' sønn, døde i høi alder og blev begravet i sin far Joas' grav i Ofra, som tilhørte Abiesers ætt.

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  • Genesis 25:8

    Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

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  • Job 42:17

    So Job died, being old and full of days.

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  • Judges 6:24

    Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

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  • Job 5:26

    Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

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  • Genesis 15:15

    And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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  • Judges 8:27

    And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

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  • Joshua 24:29–30

    And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

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