基甸又去毗努伊勒提出同樣的請求,也遭到拒絕。 基甸對那裡的人說:「我凱旋歸來時,必拆毀你們的這座城樓。」

10 那時,西巴和撒慕拿率領東方各族的殘餘軍隊一萬五千人駐紮在加各,因為已經有十二萬刀兵被殺。

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From there he went up to Peniel[a](A) and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had. So he said to the men of Peniel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.”(B)

10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:8 Hebrew Penuel, a variant of Peniel; also in verses 9 and 17