Judges 8:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ Then Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the three hundred who were with him, exhausted and famished.^{[a] 5} So he said to the people of Succoth, ‘Please give some loaves of bread to my followers, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.’ ⁶ But the officials of Succoth said, ‘Do you already have in your possession the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna, that we should give bread to your army?’