A   And the men of Ephraim sayde vnto him: Wherfore hast thou done this vnto vs, that thou hast not called vs, wh&abar; thou wentest forth to fight agaynst þe; Madianites? and they chode sore with him. But he sayde vnto them: What haue I done now that is like youre acte? Is not the aftergadderynge of Ephraim better then the whole haruest of Abieser? ^noteGod hath delyuered þe; prynces of the Madianites Oreb and Zeb in to youre hande, how coulde I do that ye haue done? Wha&abar; he had sayde this, their blast was swaged from him.

Now whan Gedeon came vnto Iordane, he wente ouer with the thre hundreth m&ebar; that were with him, and they were weery, and folowed vpon their chace. B   And he sayde vnto the men of Sucoth: I praye you geue the people that are with me, some loaues of bred (for they are weery) that I maye folowe vpon Zebea and Salmana the kinges of the Madianites.

But the rulers of Sucoth sayde: Are the handes of Zebea and Salmana in thy handes allready, that we must geue bred vnto thy men of warre? Gedeon sayde: Well, whan the LORDE delyuereth Zebea and Salmana in to my h&abar;de, I wyll thresshe youre flesh with thornes of the wyldernesse and with breares. And from thence he wente vp vnto Penuel, and spake euen so vnto them. And the m&ebar; of Penuel gaue him like answere as they of Sucoth. And he sayde also vnto the men of Penuel: Yf I come peaceably agayne, I wil breake downe this tower.

C   As for Zebea and Salmana, they were at Karkar, and their hoost with them vpon a fyftene thousande, which were all that were lefte of the whole hoost of the children of the Easte: for there were fallen an hundreth and twentye thousande, that coulde drawe the swerde.

And Gedeon wente vp by the waye, where they dwell in the tentes on the east side of Nobah and Iakbeha, ∧ smote the hoost, for the hoost was carelesse, and mystrusted nothinge. And Zebea and Salmana fled, but he folowed after them, and toke þe; two kynges

of the Madianites Zebea and Salmana, and put all the hoost in feare.

Now whan Gedeon þe; sonne of Ioas came agayne fr&obar; the battayll out of þe; east, he toke a lad of the men of Sucoth, ∧ examyned him, which wrote him vp the names of the rulers of Sucoth, and their Elders, eu&ebar; threscore and seuentene men.

D   And he came to the men of Sucoth, ∧ sayde: Beholde, here is Zebea ∧ Salmana, c&obar;cernynge wh&obar; ye laughed me to scorne, ∧ sayde: Are the handes of Zebea and Salmana in thy h&abar;des all ready, that we must geue bred vnto thy men which are weery? And he toke the Elders of the cite, and thornes out of the wildernes, and breres, and caused þe; men of Sucoth to be torne therwith. ^noteAnd the tower of Penuel brake he downe, and slewe the men of the cite.

And he saide vnto Zebea and Salmana: What maner of m&ebar; were they wh&obar; ye slewe at Thabor? They sayde: They were euen like the, ∧ goodly men, as yf they had bene a kynges childr&ebar;. He sayde: They were my brethren, euen my mother sonnes: As truly as the LORDE lyueth, yf ye had lett&ebar; them lyue, I wolde not slaye you.

E   And he saide vnto his first borne sonne Iether: Stonde vp, ∧ slaye them. Howbeit the lad drue not out his swerde, for he was afrayed, for so moch as he was yet but a lad. Zebea ∧ Salmana sayde: Stonde thou vp, ∧ slaye vs, for as the man is, soch is also his str&ebar;gth. So Gedeon arose, and slewe Zebea and Salmana, and toke the ornamentes that were aboute their Camels neckes.

Then sayde certayne in Israel vnto Gedeon: Be thou lorde ouer vs, thou and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne, for so moch as thou hast delyuered vs from þe; hande of þe; Madianites. Neuertheles Gedeon saide vnto them: I wil not be lorde ouer you, nether shal my sonne be lorde ouer you, but the LORDE shalbe lorde ouer you.

F   Gedeon sayde vnto them: One thinge I desyre of you, Euery man geue me the earinge that he hath spoyled. (For in so moch as þe; men were Ismaelites, they had earinges.) They sayde: Them wyll we geue the. And they spred out a cloth, and euery man cast the earinge theron that he had spoyled. And the golden earynges which he requyred, had in weight, a thousande and seuen hundreth Sycles of golde, besyde the spanges and cheynes, and scarlet rayment which the kynges of the Madianites dyd weere, and besyde the neckbandes of their Camels. And Gideon made a cote armoure therof, and set it in his cite at Aphra. And all Israel wente there a whoringe after it, and it turned to an occasion of fallinge vnto Gedeon and his house.

G   Thus were þe; Madianites brought downe before the children of Israel, and lifte vp their heade nomore: and the londe was in rest fortye yeares, as l&obar;ge as Gedeon lyued.

^noteAnd Ierubaal the sonne of Ioas w&ebar;te ∧ dwelt in his house. And Gedeon Had thre score ∧ ten sonnes, which were come out of his thye: for he had many wyues. And his concubyne which he had at Sich&ebar;, bare him a sonne also, whom he called Abimelech. And Gideon the sonne of Ioas dyed in a good age, ∧ was buried at Aphra in þe; sepulcre of his father Ioas the father of the Esrites.

But whan Gedeon was deed, the childr&ebar; of Israel turned backe, and wente awhoringe after Baalim, and made a couenaunt &wt; Baal Berith, þt; he shulde be their God. And þe; childr&ebar; of Israel thoughte not on þe; LORDE their God, which had delyuered them fr&obar; the hande of their enemies rounde aboute: and they shewed not mercy vnto the house of Ierubaal Gedeon, acordinge to all the good that he had done vnto Israel.

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