KJV King James Version
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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Judges 8:32
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
WEB World English Bible
Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
ASV American Standard Version
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Gideon son of Joash dieth, in a good old age, and is buried in the burying-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrite.
Surrounding context — Judges 8
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
31 And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
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וַיָּ֛מָתH4191 · mutto dieגִּדְע֥וֹןH1439 · gid.onGideonבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childיוֹאָ֖שׁH3101 · yo.ashJoashבְּשֵׂיבָ֣הH7872 · se.vahgreyheadedטוֹבָ֑הH2896 · tovpleasantוַיִּקָּבֵ֗רH6912 · qa.varto buryבְּקֶ֙בֶר֙H6913 · qe.vergraveיוֹאָ֣שׁH3101 · yo.ashJoashאָבִ֔יוH1 · avfatherבְּעָפְרָ֖הH6084 · oph.rahOphrahאֲבִ֥יH33 · a.vi ha.ez.riAbiezriteהָֽעֶזְרִֽי׃ פH33 · a.vi ha.ez.riAbiezrite
Cross-references
Genesis 25:8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.Job 5:26Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.Genesis 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.Judges 6:24Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.Job 42:17So Job died, [being] old and full of days.Judges 8:27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.Joshua 24:29-30And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.
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