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Judges 8:1-3
Living Bible
Judges 8:1-3
Living Bible
8 But the tribal leaders of Ephraim were violently angry with Gideon.
“Why didn’t you send for us when you first went out to fight the Midianites?” they demanded.
2-3 But Gideon replied, “God let you capture Oreb and Zeeb, the generals of the army of Midian! What have I done in comparison with that? Your actions at the end of the battle were more important than ours at the beginning!”[a] So they calmed down.
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- Judges 8:2 Your actions . . . at the beginning, more literally, “Are not the last grapes of Ephraim better than the entire crop of Abiezer?”
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