²⁸ In this way Midian was humbled before the people of Israel, and they did not raise their heads again.

The land was quiet for forty years during the days of Gideon.

²⁹ Jerubbaal son of Joash returned and lived in his own house. ³⁰ Gideon had seventy sons, who were his direct descendants from his own body, because he had many wives.