RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

your hand, that we should give lechem to your men that
are weary?
16 And he took the zechanim of the city, and thorns of the
wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of
Sukkot a lesson.
17 And he beat down the tower of Penu-El, and killed the
men of the city.
18 Then said he to Tzevah and Tzalmunna, What manner
of men were they whom you killed at Tavor? And they
answered, As you are, so were they: Each one resembled
the children of a Melech. 728
19 And he said, They were my brothers, even the sons of
my eema: as vuvh lives, if you had saved them alive, I
would not kill you now.
20 And he said to Yether his bachor, Rise up, and kill
them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared,
because he was still a youth.
21 Then Tzevah and Tzalmunna said, Rise and fall upon
us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gidyon arose,
and killed Tzevah and Tzalmunna, and took away the
ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
22 Then the men of Yisrael said to Gidyon, Rule over us,
both you, and your son, and your son's son also: for you
have delivered us from the hand of Midyan.
23 And Gidyon said to them, I will not rule over you,
neither shall my son rule over you: vuvh shall rule over
you.
24 And Gidyon said to them, I would desire a request
from you, that you would give me every man the earrings
of his spoil - For they had golden earrings because they
were Yishma’elym. 729
25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And
they spread a garment, and did cast in it every man the
earrings of his spoil.
26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he
requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of
gold; besides ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment
that was on the melechim of Midyan, and besides the
chains that were around their camels' necks.
27 And Gidyon made it into an ephod- shoulder garment,
and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and kol Yisrael
went there whoring after it: it then became a trap to
Gidyon, and to his bayit. 730
28 So Midyan was subdued before the children of Yisrael,
so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the
country was in shalom forty years in the days of Gidyon.
29 And Yahruba’al the son of Yoash went and dwelt in
his own bayit.
30 And Gidyon had seventy sons from his own body: for
he had many wives.
31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore
him a son, whose name he called Avimelech.
32 And Gidyon the son of Yoash died in a tov old age,
and was buried in the tomb of Yoash his abba, in Ophrah
of the Avi-Ezrites.
33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gidyon was dead, that
the children of Yisrael turned again, and went whoring
after the Ba’alim, and made Ba’al-Berith 731 their elohim.
34 And the children of Yisrael remembered not vuvh their
Elohim, who had delivered them out of the hands of all
their enemies on every side:
35 Neither showed they chesed to the bayit of Yahruba’al,
named, Gidyon, according to all the tov that he had
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shown to Yisrael.
And Avimelech the son of Yahruba’al went to
Shechem to his eema's brothers, and communed with
them, and with all the mishpacha of the bayit of his
eema's abba, saying,
2 Speak, I ask you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem,
What is better for you, should all the sons of Yahruba’al,
which are seventy persons, reign over you, or just one
reign over you? Remember also that I am your bone and
your flesh.
3 And his eema's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all
the men of Shechem all these words: and their levim
inclined to follow Avimelech; for they said, He is our
brother.
4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the
bayit of Ba’al-Berith, with which Avimelech hired the
am-ha-aretz, who followed him.
5 And he went to his abba's bayit at Ophrah, and killed
his brothers the sons of Yahruba’al, being seventy
persons, upon one stone: not counting Yotam the
youngest son of Yahruba’al who was left; for he hid
himself.
6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all
the bayit of Millo, and went, and made Avimelech
melech, by the oak of Matzpiyah near the pillar that was
in Shechem.
7 And when they told it to Yotam, he went and stood on
the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and
cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of
Shechem, that Elohim may listen to you.
8 The eytzim went forth once upon a time to anoint a
melech over them; and they said to the olive eytz, Reign
over us.
9 But the olive eytz said to them, Should I leave my
fatness, with which by me they honor Elohim and man,
and go to be promoted over the other eytzim?
10 And the other eytzim said to the fig eytz, Come, and
reign over us.
11 But the fig eytz said to them, Should I forsake my
sweetness, and my tov fruit, and go to be promoted over
the other eytzim?
12 Then said the other eytzim to the vine, Come, and
reign over us.
13 And the vine said to them, Should I leave my wine,
which cheers Elohim and man, and go to be promoted
over the other eytzim?
14 Then said all the other eytzim to the bramble, Come,
and reign over us.
15 And the bramble said to the eytzim, If in emet you will
anoint me melech over you, then come and put your trust
in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the
bramble, and devour the cedars of Levanon. 732
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16 Now therefore, if you have done truly and sincerely, in
that you have made Avimelech melech, and if you have
dealt well with Yahruba’al and his bayit, and have done to
him according to the deserving of his hands-
17 For my abba fought for you, and risked his chayim,
and delivered you out of the hand of Midyan:
18 And you have risen up against my abba's bayit this
day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, upon one
stone, and have made Avimelech, the son of his female
eved, melech over the men of Shechem, because he is