# So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel "So Yahweh subdued the Midianites before the people of Israel" or "So Yahweh helped the Israelites defeat the Midianites" # they did not raise their heads up again "they did not attack Israel again" # So the land had peace "So the Israelites lived peacefully" # in the days of Gideon "during the life of Gideon"