Judges 8:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you; each of you give me an earring he has taken as spoil.” (For the enemy had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

Cross References

Genesis 24:22

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels

Genesis 24:53

And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold and garments and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

Genesis 25:12

These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

Genesis 25:13

These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Genesis 35:4

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.

Genesis 37:25

Then they sat down to eat, and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying gum, balm, and resin, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.

Genesis 37:28

When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

1 Kings 20:11

The king of Israel answered, “Enough! One who puts on armor should not brag like one who takes it off.”

Exodus 12:35

The Israelites had acted according to the word of Moses; they had asked the Egyptians for jewelry of silver and gold and for clothing,

Exodus 32:3

So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Exodus 32:4

He took these from them, formed them in a mold, and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:8

they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Ezekiel 7:20

From their beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.

Judges 8:25

“We will willingly give them,” they answered. So they spread a garment, and each threw into it an earring he had taken as spoil.

1 Samuel 25:11

Shall I take my bread and my water and the meat that I have butchered for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”