Crossword-Solution: OREB 4 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Nor did _Israel_ scape Th’ infection when their borrow’d Gold compos’d The Calf in _Oreb_: and the Rebel King Doubl’d that sin in _Bethel_ and in _Dan_, Lik’ning his Maker to the Grazed Ox, _Jehovah_, who in one Night when he pass’d From _Egypt_ marching, equal’d with one stroke Both her first born and all her bleating Gods.

And more high upon that mountain is the chapel of Elijah the prophet; and that place they clepe Horeb, whereof holy writ speaketh, _Et ambulavit in fortitudine cibi illius usque_, _ad montem Oreb_; that is to say, ‘And he went in strength of that meat unto the hill of God, Horeb.’ And there nigh is the vine that Saint John the Evangelist planted that men clepe raisins of Staphis.

And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.

Nor did Israel scape Th' infection when their borrow'd Gold compos'd The Calf in Oreb: and the Rebel King Doubl'd that sin in Bethel and in Dan, Lik'ning his Maker to the Grazed Ox, Jehovah, who in one Night when he pass'd From Egypt marching, equal'd with one stroke Both her first born and all her bleating Gods.

According to the later version, Gideon is the deliverer of Israel from the incursions of the Midianites, and the princes slain are Oreb and Zeeb, vii.