Quotes about Legacy
In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
- Judges 2:22
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
- Judges 3:2
Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
- Judges 8:22
and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.
- Judges 8:29
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
- Judges 8:30
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
- Judges 8:31
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.
- Judges 8:32
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
- Judges 9:54
When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
- Judges 10:5
And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
- Judges 11:2
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
- Judges 12:7
Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.
- Judges 12:10