⁴ When Gideon came ^(A)to the Jordan, he and ^(B)the three hundred men who were with him crossed over, exhausted but still in pursuit. ⁵ Then he said to the men of ^(C)Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.”

⁶ And the leaders of Succoth said, ^(D)“Are^[a] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that ^(E)we should give bread to your army?”