22. Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
23. Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”
24. And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
25. And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.