God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
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God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
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God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
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God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?' Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
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Passages linked to Judges 8:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Judges 7:24-25 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
- Psalms 44:3 For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
- Psalms 115:1 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
- Psalms 118:14-16 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
- Proverbs 16:32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
- Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
- Proverbs 25:15 By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
- John 4:37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
- Romans 12:3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:6 having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
- Romans 15:18-19 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
- Philippians 2:3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 8:3 God hath delivered into your hands the…
Jdg 8:3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
Ver. 3. And what was I able to do in comparison of you?] He knew them to be ambitious, and therefore he doth little less than ascribe the victory to them. Yet he saith not, You have done all, and I little or nothing: for then they would have thought he had jeered them. Only he immindeth them of entitling God to all their achievements, when he saith here "God hath delivered into your hands," &c. This, these proud persons perhaps thought not of.
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Then their anger was abated.] As it might well enough: for, like the waters of Shiloah at the foot of Zion, {Isa 8:6} which run softly, he made but small noise, though he heard great words.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain His soft and humble answer allayed their rage and…
His soft and humble answer allayed their rage and envy. See Pro 15:1; 25:15.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain God hath delivered into your hands the princes of…
God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb,.... A high honour this conferred upon you, and with which you may be well contented:
and what was I able to do in comparison of you? what he had done in defeating and pursuing the army of Midian, in slaying and taking any of them prisoners, was nothing in comparison of what they had done; nay, he signifies that he was not capable of doing anything worth mentioning without them; the glory of finishing this conquest was reserved for them:
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then their anger was abated towards him when he had said that; it being what gratified their pride and was pleasing to them; and this conduct of Gideon showed him to be a wise and humble man.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Was abated - His soft and humble answer allayed…
Was abated - His soft and humble answer allayed their rage.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. Then their anger was abated] A soft…
Verse 3. Then their anger was abated] A soft answer turneth away wrath. He might have said that he could place but little dependence on his brethren when, through faint-heartedness, 22,000 left him at one time; but he passed this by, and took a more excellent way.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 8:3. Then their anger was abated — According…
Jdg 8:3. Then their anger was abated — According to that fine maxim of Solomon, “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) Then their anger was abated towards him.—The soft…
(3) Then their anger was abated towards him.—The soft answer turned away wrath (Pro_15:1). The word for anger is mach, “wind,” or “spirit”—anger expressed by fierce breathing through the nostrils, “the blast of the terrible ones” (Isa_25:4). (Comp. Ecc_10:4 : “If the spirit (ruach) of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.”) “Gideon’s good words were as victorious as his sword.”—Bp. Hall.
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