c What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” When he said this, their anger against him subsided.ĤWhen Gideon reached the Jordan and crossed it, he and his three hundred men were exhausted and famished.ĥSo he said to the people of Succoth, “Will you give my followers some loaves of bread? They are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.”ĦBut the princes of Succoth replied, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give food to your army?” * 7Gideon said, “Very well when the L ORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my power, I will thrash your bodies with desert thorns and briers.”ĨHe went up from there to Penuel and made the same request of them, but the people of Penuel answered him as had the people of Succoth.ĩSo to the people of Penuel, too, he said, “When I return in peace, I will demolish this tower.”ġ0Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their force of about fifteen thousand men these were all who were left of the whole Kedemite army, a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen having fallen.ġ1Gideon went up by the route of the tent-dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the force when it felt secure.ġ2Zebah and Zalmunna fled and Gideon pursued them. 1 a But the Ephraimites said to him, “What have you done to us, not summoning us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they quarreled bitterly with him.ĢBut he answered them, “What have I done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? b 3It was into your power God delivered the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb.
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