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Judges 8:29

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and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

KJV

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

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This verse in Judges 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel

on Judges 8:28-29

Midian is put down here and troubles Israel nowhere else in the book. The wording is that the country was in quietness forty years, where 3:11, 3:30 and 5:31 read the land had rest; those three are the only places the rest formula falls, and it stops with Deborah, so this chapter records peace in different words. Verse 29 uses Gideon's other name, Jerubbaal, which 6:32 explains as let Baal plead against him, and it is the name chapter 9 keeps for his house.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash,.... That is, Gideon, Jerubbaal being another name of his; see Jdg 6:32 went and dwelt in his own house; which was at Ophrah, as appears from Jdg 9:5 the war being ended, he disbanded his army, and retired to his own house; not that he lived altogether a private life there, but as a judge in Israel.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He was not puffed up with his great honours, did not covet a palace or castle to dwell in, but retired to the house he had lived in before his elevation. Thus that brave Roman Who was called from the plough upon a sudden occasion to command the army when the action was over returned to his plough again.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֛לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • יְרֻבַּ֥עַלJerub-Baal

    yerubaalH3378 →14 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יוֹאָ֖שׁJoash

    yoashH3101 →47 times

  • וַיֵּ֥שֶׁבand he dwelt

    vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃in own house his

    beveitoH1004 →2046 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Judges 6:32So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.3 works1 Samuel 12:11So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.3 worksJudges 7:1Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.3 worksNehemiah 5:14–15Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Judges 7:1

    Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the…

    it leads to

    • Judges 6:32

      So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 12:6

      Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

    • Ecclesiastes 9:10

      Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

  • Through

    Judges 6:32

    So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 12:11

      So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.

    • 2 Samuel 11:21

      Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you…

    • Judges 7:1

      Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 12:11

    So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.

    it leads to

    • Judges 4:6

      She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten…

    • Judges 11:1–33

      Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

About Judges

The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 8 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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