Judges 8:23-25

Good News Translation

²³ Gideon answered, “I will not be your ruler, nor will my son. The Lord will be your ruler.” ²⁴ But he went on to say, “Let me ask one thing of you. Every one of you give me the earrings you took.” (The Midianites, like other desert people, wore gold earrings.)

²⁵ The people answered, “We'll be glad to give them to you.” They spread out a cloth, and everyone put on it the earrings that he had taken.