Judges 8:28
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges 8:28 in other translations
| BSB | In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon, |
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| WEB | So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. |
| ASV | So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. |
| YLT | And Midian is humbled before the sons of Israel, and have not added to lift up their head; and the land resteth forty years in the days of Gideon. |
| DARBY | And Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. |
| BBE | So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon. |
| Webster | Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they raised their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. |
What does Judges 8:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Jud 8:28. Midian Subdued.
28. Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel--This invasion of the Arab hordes into Canaan was as alarming and desolating as the irruption of the Huns into Europe. It was the severest scourge ever inflicted upon Israel; and both it and the deliverance under Gideon lived for centuries in the minds of the people (Psa 83:11).Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 8:22-28
Gideon refused the government the people offered him. No good man can be pleased with any honour done to himself, which belongs only to God. Gideon thought to keep up the remembrance of this victory by an ephod, made of the choicest of the spoils. But probably this ephod had, as usual, a teraphim annexed to it, and Gideon intended this for an oracle to be consulted. Many are led into false ways by one false step of…
Judges 8:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Judges 8:28
- Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
- Judges 3:11
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
- Judges 3:30
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
- Isaiah 10:26
And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
- Psalms 83:9-12
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: Which perished at En–dor: they became as dung for the earth. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
- Isaiah 9:4
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ps 83:9-12; Isa 9:4; 10:26
forty years.
3:11,30; 5:31
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Context
- Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
- Judges 8:28
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
- Judges 8:29
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
Judges 8:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así fué humillado Madián delante de los hijos de Israel, y nunca más levantaron su cabeza. Y reposó la tierra cuarenta años en los días de Gedeón. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Madian fut humilié devant les fils d’Israël; et il ne leva plus sa tête. Et le pays fut en repos 40 ans, aux jours de Gédéon. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So wurde Midian vor den Kindern Israels gebeugt, und es hob sein Haupt nicht mehr empor. Und das Land hatte in den Tagen Gideons Ruhe vierzig Jahre. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Humiliatus est autem Madian coram filiis Israël, nec potuerunt ultra cervices elevare: sed quievit terra per quadraginta annos, quibus Gedeon præfuit. |