Judges 8:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ So Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they lifted up their heads no more. So the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ Thus 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Thus was Midian subdued before the Israelites so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had peace and rest for forty years in the days of Gideon.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

Common English Bible

²⁸ So Midian was brought down before the Israelites and no longer raised its head. The land was peaceful for forty years during Gideon’s time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ But Midian was humbled before the sons of Israel. Neither were they able any longer to lift up their necks. But the land rested for forty years, while Gideon presided.

Judges 8:28 Cross References

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.

Judges 3:11

So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Isaiah 10:26

The Lord of hosts will wield a whip against them, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.

Isaiah 9:4

For the yoke of their burden and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.

Judges 3:30

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his town, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

Judges 8:29

Jerubbaal son of Joash went to live in his own house.

Psalm 83:2

Even now your enemies are in tumult; those who hate you have raised their heads.

1 Samuel 7:13

So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel; the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.