H9023–הוּ–hu

They said one to another, Who has done this thing? When they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.

רֵעֵ֔הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, let him be put to death while [ergänzt: it is yet] morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has broken down his altar.

מִזְבְּחֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.

מִזְבְּחֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.

בִּלְשׁוֹנ֨וֹ (וֹ) o “his”בִּרְכָּ֖יו (ו) v “his”

Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place.

לִמְקֹמֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

לְאֹֽהָלָ֔יו (ו) v “his”

and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

נַעֲר֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.

לְרֵעֵ֖הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.

רֵעֵ֤הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”בְּיָד֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

שִׁבְר֖וֹ (וֹ) o “its”

They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

בְּרֵעֵ֖הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

He said to Jether his firstborn, Up, and kill them. But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

בְּכוֹר֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”חַרְבּוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

גְּבוּרָת֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

שְׁלָל֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.

שְׁלָלֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.

בְעִירוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”וּלְבֵית֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

יְרֵכ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

וּפִֽילַגְשׁוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”שְׁמ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

אָבִ֔יו (ו) v “his”

Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

אִמּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אִמּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

אִמּ֜וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

אָבִיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”אֶחָ֧יו (ו) v “his”

When they told it to Jotham, 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 God may listen to you.

קוֹל֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands

בֵּית֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”יָדָ֖יו (ו) v “his”