Judges 8:21-24

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²¹Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “You do it; we’d rather be killed by a man!”^[a] So Gideon killed them and took the ornaments from their camels’ necks.

²²Now the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Be our king! You and your sons and all your descendants shall be our rulers, for you have saved us from Midian.”

^23-24But Gideon replied, “I will not be your king, nor shall my son; the Lord is your King! However, I have one request. Give me all the earrings collected from your fallen foes”—for the troops of Midian, being Ishmaelites, all wore gold earrings.

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Footnotes

Judges 8:21 we’d rather be killed by a man, literally, “for as a man is, so is his strength.” Perhaps the meaning is, “A quick death is less painful.”