Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Judges 8:29-35 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

29. So Jerobaal the son of Joas went, and dwelt in his own house.

30. And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

31. And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose name was Abimelech.

32. And Gedeon the son of Joas died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father in Ephra of the family of Ezri.

33. But after Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and committed fornication with Baalim. And they made a covenant with Baal, that he should be their god:

34. And they remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies round about:

35. Neither did they shew mercy to the house of Jerobaal Gedeon, according to all the good things he had done to Israel.