Bible Strands
Judges 8:29
and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Following the defeat of Midian and the forty-year period of peace, Gideon (identified in the text as Jerubbaal son of Joash) leaves the military campaign and returns to his private residence.
The words — וַיֵּשֶׁב (va/i.Ye.shev) translates literally as "and he dwelt" or "and he settled down," denoting a concrete shift from active leadership to stationary domestic life.
The thread — The name Jerubbaal is explicitly defined in Judges 6:32, recalled in Judges 7:1, and listed among Israel’s deliverers in 1 Samuel 12:11, anchoring this moment within the broader judicial narrative.
Why it lands — The text records a factual transition from public deliverance to private residence, requiring the reader to note how a decisive military victory concludes in ordinary domestic rest rather than continued political authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
Cross-references
- Judges 6:32 So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.
- Judges 7:1 Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
- 1 Samuel 12:11 So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
- Nehemiah 5:14 Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.