Excerpt from Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt, Vol. 4 of 8: Now First Collected, to Which Are Prefixed the Lives of the Author; History of the World, Book II, Chap. 13, 5-28
In the end, so much did the people reverence Gideon in the present for this victory, and their own deliverance, as they Offered him the sovereignty over them, and to establish him in the government; which he refused, answering, I will not reign over you, neither shall my child reign over you, but the Lord shall 8p. But he desired the people, that they would bestow on him the' golden earrings which every man had gotten. For the Ismaelites, neighbours, and mixed with the Midianites, used to wear them: the weight of all which was a thousand and seven hundred Shekels of gold, which makes of ours 2380 pounds, if we follow the account Of the Shekel vulgar. And because he 233262517? That 1gold llllto an ephod, a garment Of gold.
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