Judges 8:30 Meaning and Explanation
“And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.”
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What Does Judges 8:30 Mean?
The narrator records that Gideon had seventy sons of his own body, for he took many wives. The note on his large household stands without comment, simply set down as fact.
Scripture often reports the lives of its figures plainly, including choices that depart from God's design of marriage and sow seeds of future grief. A household so divided will, in the next chapter, become the ground of bitter rivalry and bloodshed among these very sons. The verse quietly reminds the reader that even a faithful servant's departures from God's ways carry consequences that reach into the generations after him.
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What does Judges 8:30 mean?
Gideon fathers seventy sons through his many wives.