SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:30
Y tuvo Gedeón setenta hijos que salieron de su muslo, porque tuvo muchas mujeres.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten , etc.] Not after his victories, for it is plain he had children before; mention is made of Jether, his firstborn, as a youth able to draw a sword, and slay with it, ( Judges 8:20) but this was the number of all his sons, both before and after, and a large number it was; and the phrase “of his body begotten”, or “that went out of his thigh” is used to show that they were his own sons, begotten in wedlock, and not sons that he had taken into his family by adoption, or that he was father-in-law to, having married a woman or women that had sons by a former husband; but these were all his own: for he had many wives ; which, though not agreeable to the original law of marriage, was customary in those times, and even with good men, and was connived at; and this is a reason accounting for his having so many sons.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 29-35 - As soon as Gideon was dead, who kept the people to the worship of the God of Israel, they found themselves under no restraint; then they wen after Baalim, and showed no kindness to the family of Gideon. No wonde if those who forget their God, forget their friends. Yet conscious of our own ingratitude to the Lord, and observing that of mankind in general, we should learn to be patient under any unkind returns we mee with for our poor services, and resolve, after the Divine example, no to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולגדעון 1439 היו 1961 שׁבעים 7657 בנים 1121 יצאי 3318 ירכו 3409 כי 3588 נשׁים 802 רבות 7227 היו׃ 1961
