Judges 8:4
2 But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
3 God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.
Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
5 So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
6 But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”
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Compare
- BSB
- Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
- KJV
- And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
- WEB
- Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
- ASV
- And Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
- DARBY
- And Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
- BLB
- And Gideon came to the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who [were] with him, exhausted and pursuing.
- ÅB
- Gideon kom til Jordan og gikk over, han og de tre hundre mann som var med ham, trette som de var blitt ved å forfølge fienden.
- OTB
- Gideon og de tre hundre mennene med ham, utmattet, men fortsatt i forfølgelse, nådde Jordan og krysset over.
- B1930
- Gideon kom til Jordan og gikk over, han og de tre hundre mann som var med ham, trette som de var blitt ved å forfølge fienden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 6:9
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Read in context2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Read in contextHebrews 12:1–4
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Read in context1 Samuel 14:28–29
Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
Read in context1 Samuel 30:10
because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.
Read in context2 Corinthians 4:8–9
We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
Read in contextJudges 7:25
They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. So they pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.
Read in context1 Samuel 14:31–32
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
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