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Judges 8:23-25
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Judges 8:23-25
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”[a] 24 And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ish′maelites.) 25 And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil.
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- 8.23 It appears from the sequel that Gideon did in fact become a king even if he refused the title; but the idea of an hereditary monarchy was still unacceptable, as the following history of Abimelech shows.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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