Judges 8:1-3

Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna

¹ _z Then the men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they accused him fiercely. ² And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not _a the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? ³ _b God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?" _c Then their anger ₁ against him subsided when he said this.

1. Cross References
   Judges 12:1
   The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.
   2 Samuel 19:41
   Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 24:13
   For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.
   Jeremiah 49:9
   If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
   Obadiah 1:5
   If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night - how you have been destroyed! - would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
   Micah 7:1
   Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
   
3. Cross References
   Judges 7:24 - 25
   Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
   
4. Cross References
   Proverbs 15:1
   A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.