THEOSISJudges 8:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he answered them: What could I have done like to that which you have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the vintages of Abiezer?
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מֶה־עָשִׂ֥יתִי עַתָּ֖ה כָּכֶ֑ם הֲל֗וֹא ט֛וֹב עֹלְל֥וֹת אֶפְרַ֖יִם מִבְצִ֥יר אֲבִיעֶֽזֶר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jas 3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
- Jas 3:18And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.
- Judg 6:11And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,
- Judg 6:34But the spirit of the Lord came upon Gedeon, and he sounded the trumpet, and called together the house of Abiezer, to follow him.
- Jas 1:19You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
- Jas 1:20For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
- 1 Cor 13:4Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,
- 1 Cor 13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.