3God 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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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. …
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)No sooner were the Midianites, the common enemy, subdued, than, through the violence of some hot spirits, the children of Israel were ready to quarrel among themselves; an unhappy spark was struck, which, if Gideon had not with a great deal of wisdom and grace extinguished immediately, might have broken out into a flame of fatal consequence. The Ephraimites, when they brought the heads of Oreb and…
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