Judges 8:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

God

Then

Proverbs 15:1

Proverbs 16:32

Proverbs 25:11

Bible References

God

And, messengers, did Gideon send through all the hill country of Ephraim, saying - Go down to meet Midian, and capture, before them, the waters, as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and captured the waters, as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan.

For, not by their own sword, gat they possession of the land, Nor did, their own arm, win victory for them, - But thine own right hand, and thine own arm, and the light of thy face, Because thou hadst accepted them.

Not unto us, O Yahweh, not unto us, - but, unto thine own Name, give glory, concerning thy lovingkindness, concerning thy faithfulness.

My might and melody, is Yah, and he hath become mine by salvation.

For, herein, doth the saying, hold good, - One, is the sower, and, another, is the reaper.

For I say, through the favour which hath been given me, unto every one who is among you, - not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but so to think as to think soberly - as, unto each one, God hath dealt a measure of faith.

For I wilt not dare to speak anything save of the things which Christ hath wrought out for himself through me for the obedience of nations, - -by word and deed,

Nothing by way of faction, nothing by way of vain-glory, - but, in lowliness of mind, accounting, one another, superior to yourselves, -

Then

A soft answer, turneth away wrath, but a cutting word raiseth anger.

Better he that is slow to anger, than a hero, and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that captureth a city.

Golden fruit in figured silver baskets, is a word spoken on fitting occasion.