Message Notes

OFFER MADE TO GIDEON

1. To rule over Israel Judges 8:22a
a) Gideon

b) His sons

2. Reason: Deliverance from Midian Judges 8:22b

REFUSAL OF THE OFFER

1. Outright refusal Judges 8:23a

2. Reason: God shall rule Judges 8:23b

REQUEST FROM GIDEON

1. Request for gold Judges 8:24a

2. Golden earrings from the Ishmaelites Judges 8:24

3. Gift of many earrings and other spoils Judges 8:25-26

MAKING OF AN EPHOD

1. Gideon made an ephod Judges 8:27

2. The ephod became a snare Judges 8:27
a) To Gideon

b) To his household

MIDIAN TOTALLY DEFEATED

1. The power of Midian was broken Judges 8:28

2. Peace prevailed Judges 8:28

FAMILY OF GIDEON

1. Many wives Judges 8:29-20

2. Seventy sons Judges 8:30

3. One concubine in Shechem Judges 8:31

4. One son from this relationship
Abimelech Judges 8:31

5. Death of Gideon Judges 8:32

AFTER THE DEATH OF GIDEON

1. Israel returned to idolatrous ways
a) Baals

b) Baal Berith (Covenant with Baal) Judges 8:33

c) Did not remember what the Lord had done Judges 8:34

2. Israel’s disregard for Gideon
a) No kindness was shown to Gideon’s family

b) All the good that Gideon did was all but totally forgotten