Judges 8:1-10

¹And the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, What is this thing, that thou wouldest do, that thou calledest not us, when thou wentest to battle against Midian? And they chided with him strongly, and well-nigh they did to him violence.

²To whom he answered, And what such thing might I have done, what manner thing ye have done? Whether a raisin of Ephraim is not better than the vintages of Abiezer?

³And the Lord hath betaken into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What such thing might I have done, what manner thing ye have done? And when he had spoken this thing, the spirit of them rested, by which they swelled against him.

⁴And when Gideon had come to Jordan, he passed it with three hundred men, that were with him; and for weariness they might not pursue them that fled.

⁵And he said to the men of Succoth, I beseech, give ye loaves to the people, that is with me; for they failed greatly, that we may then pursue Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

⁶And the princes of Succoth answered in scorn, In hap the palms of the hands of Zebah and of Zalmunna be in thine hands, and therefore thou askest, that we give loaves to thine host.

⁷To whom Gideon said, Therefore, when the Lord shall betake Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hands, and when I shall turn again overcomer in peace, I shall rend your flesh with thorns and briars of the desert.

⁸And Gideon went up from thence, and came into Penuel; and he spake like things to men of that place, to whom also they answered, as the men of Succoth had answered.

⁹And so he said to them, When I shall turn again overcomer in peace, I shall destroy this tower.

¹⁰Forsooth Zebah and Zalmunna rested with all their host; for fifteen thousand men left of all the companies of the peoples of the east, when an hundred and twenty thousand of fighters and of men drawing out sword were slain.