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21 Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up yourself, and strike us, for as is the man, so is his power.”[a] So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

22 The men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your sons, and your sons’ son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian. 23 But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; Yahweh will rule over you.”

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  1. Judges 8:21 Or “strength”