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Judges 8:26 KJV
Judges · chapter 8 · verse 26
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.Judges 8:26 · King James Version
Judges 8:26 in context
24And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
25And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
27And 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.
28Thus 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- requestedshâʼalto inquireH7592 →
- ornamentssahărôna round pendant for the neckH7720 →
- earringsnezema nose-ringH5141 →
- thousandʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- collarsnᵉṭîyphâha pendant for the earsH5188 →
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Here is, I. Gideon's laudable modesty, after his great victory, in refusing the government which the people offered him. 1. It was honest in them to offer it: Rule thou over us, for thou hast delivered us, Jdg 8:22.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-28