Judges 8:20-22

Living Bible

²⁰ Then, turning to Jether, his oldest son, he instructed him to kill them. But the boy was only a lad and was afraid to.

²¹ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “You do it; we’d rather be killed by a man!”^[a] So Gideon killed them and took the ornaments from their camels’ necks.

²² Now the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Be our king! You and your sons and all your descendants shall be our rulers, for you have saved us from Midian.”