Judges 8:22-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Gideon’s Idolatry

²² Then the Israelites said to Gideon, ‘Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Midian.’ ²³ Gideon said to them, ‘I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.’ ²⁴ Then Gideon said to them, ‘Let me make a request of you; each of you give me an ear-ring he has taken as booty.’ (For the enemy^[a] had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)