THEOSISJudges 8:32Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And Gedeon, the son of Joas died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father, in Ephra, of the family of Ezri.
וַיָּ֛מָת גִּדְע֥וֹן בֶּן־יוֹאָ֖שׁ בְּשֵׂיבָ֣ה טוֹבָ֑ה וַיִּקָּבֵ֗ר בְּקֶ֙בֶר֙ יוֹאָ֣שׁ אָבִ֔יו בְּעָפְרָ֖ה אֲבִ֥י הָֽעֶזְרִֽי׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
No commentary on this verse yet
No Church Father commentary is available for this verse yet.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 25:8And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.
- Gen 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
- Job 5:26Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
- Judg 6:24And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the Lord's peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra, which is of the family of Ezri,
- Job 42:17
- Josh 24:29And after these things Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old:
- Josh 24:30And they buried him in the border of his possession in Thamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.
- Judg 8:27And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon, and to all his house.