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Gideon Pursues Zebah and Zalmunna

The men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites?”[a] And they quarreled with him severely. And he said to them, “What I have done now in comparison with you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? God has given into your hand the commanders of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” And their anger[b] against him subsided when he said that.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:1 Hebrew “Midianite”
  2. Judges 8:3 Literally “spirit”
  3. Judges 8:3 Literally “he said this thing/word”