And he came unto the men of Succoth,.... Entered the city, and bespoke the inhabitants of it in the following manner:and said, behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me; as not in his hands, and never would be, he being with his three hundred men an unequal match to them with 15,000; but he had taken them, and brought them with him, and perhaps spared them for this very reason, to let them see they were in his hands, and now calls upon them to behold them with their own eyes, concerning whom they had flouted and jeered him:saying, are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
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Judges 8:15
Judges 8:15
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