²⁸In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon, ²⁹and he — Jerubbaal son of Joash — returned home and settled down. ³⁰Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives. ³¹His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.