Judges 8:13

And returning from the battle before the sun rising,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,

In Context

12And Zebee and Salmana fled, and Gedeon pursued and took them, all their host being put in confusion.

14He took a boy of the men of Soccoth: and he asked him the names of the princes and ancients of Soccoth, and he described unto him seventy-seven men.

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Matthew Henry on Judges 8:5-18

Gideon Pursues the Midianites. ( b. c. 1249.) 4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? 7 And Gideon said, Therefore when… Read the whole commentary →

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