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When Gideon heard the description and explanation of the dream, he prostrated himself. Then returning to the camp of Israel, he said, "Arise, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your power." (Judges 7, 15)
"They were my brothers, my mother's sons," he said. "As the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I should not kill you." (Judges 8, 19)
Gideon made an ephod out of the gold and placed it in his city Ophrah. However, all Israel paid idolatrous homage to it there, and caused the ruin of Gideon and his family. (Judges 8, 27)
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his direct descendants, for he had many wives. (Judges 8, 30)
Nor were they grateful to the family of Jerubbaal (Gideon) for all the good he had done for Israel. (Judges 8, 35)
"Put this question to all the citizens of Shechem: 'Which is better for you: that seventy men, or all Jerubbaal's sons, rule over you, or that one man rule over you?' You must remember that I am your own flesh and bone." (Judges 9, 2)
He then went to his ancestral house in Ophrah, and slew his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. Only the youngest son of Jerubbaal, Jotham, escaped, for he was hidden. (Judges 9, 5)
but you have risen against his family this day and have killed his seventy sons upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman-- (Judges 9, 18)
When Abimelech had ruled Israel for three years, (Judges 9, 22)
This was to repay the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal and to avenge their blood upon their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and upon the citizens of Shechem, who encouraged him to kill his brothers. (Judges 9, 24)
After Abimelech there rose to save Israel the Issacharite Tola, son of Puah, son of Dodo, a resident of Shamir in the mountain region of Ephraim. (Judges 10, 1)
When he had judged Israel twenty-three years, he died and was buried in Shamir. (Judges 10, 2)
