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Gideon (refusing): 23 I will not rule over you, and neither will my son. The Eternal will reign over you.

24 But I have a request to make. Each of you, give me one of the earrings you have taken as plunder.

(The enemy they defeated had gold earrings, as was the fashion of the Ishmaelites.)

People: 25 We will certainly do that.

So they spread a cloak, and each of the men threw in an earring he had taken as spoils of battle;

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