Judges 8:13-17

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹³ When Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the Ascent of Heres, ¹⁴ he captured a young man from Succoth. Gideon questioned the young man, who wrote down for him the names of the leaders of Succoth and of the town’s elders, seventy-seven men in all.

¹⁵ Gideon then went to the men of Succoth and said, “Look! Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hands? Why then would we give bread to your exhausted men?’”

¹⁶ Then Gideon took the elders of the town, and he taught the men of Succoth a lesson with thorns from the wilderness and with briars. ¹⁷ He also tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.