Judges 8:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of E´phra-im better than the vintage of Abi-e´zer?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of [your big tribe of] Ephraim better than the vintage of [my little clan of] Abiezer?

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he said unto them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Common English Bible

² But he said to them, “What have I done now, compared to you? Aren’t Ephraim’s leftovers better than Abiezer’s main harvest?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he responded to them: "But what could I have done that would be so great as what you have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the vintages of Abiezer?

Judges 8:2 Cross References

Leviticus 19:9

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Numbers 26:30

These are the sons of Gil´e-ad: of Je-e´zer, the family of the Je-e´zerites: of Helek, the family of the He´lekites:

Judges 6:11

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Jo´ash the Abi-ez´rite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Mid´i-anites.

Judges 6:34

But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-e´zer was gathered after him.

Judges 8:1

And the men of E´phra-im said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Mid´i-anites? And they did chide with him sharply.

Judges 8:3

God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Mid´i-an, Oreb and Ze´eb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.