In this desire for gold, Gideon falls to the level of ordinary men, and we may see in it the first decline of his glory, leading to a sad tarnishin…

I would desire a request of you. —Not infrequently, the magnanimity which has just stood firm under a great trial succumb…

He did not set up an idol, but he made an ephod, an imitation of that wonderful vestment worn by the high priest. Perhaps he made it of solid gold,…

And Gideon said to them, I would desire a request of you ,
&c.] Which he thought they would scarcely deny, and it was now a fa…

Gideon refused the government the people offered him. No good man can be pleased with any honour done to himself, which belongs only to God.

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