13 ¶ So Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle, [a]the sun being yet high,

14 And took a servant of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he [b]wrote to him the princes of Succoth and the Elders thereof, even seventy and seven men.

15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah, and Zalmunna, by whom ye upbraided me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah, and Zalmunna already in thine hands, that we should give bread unto thy weary men?

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:13 Some read, before the Sun rose up.
  2. Judges 8:14 Or, described.

13 Gideon son of Joash(A) then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.(B) 14 He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth,(C) the elders(D) of the town. 15 Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?(E)’”

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