King James Version
Judges 8:28 KJV
“Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.”
Forty
Judges 8 — Context
Judges 8:27 — “And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it...”
Judges 8:28 — “Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.”
Judges 8:29 — “And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.”