Judges 8:17-19

The Message

^16-17 Then he took the seventy-seven leaders of Succoth and thrashed them with desert thorns and thistles. And he demolished the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the city.

¹⁸ He then addressed Zebah and Zalmunna: “Tell me about the men you killed at Tabor.”

“They were men much like you,” they said, “each one like a king’s son.”

¹⁹ Gideon said, “They were my brothers, my mother’s sons. As God lives, if you had let them live, I would let you live.”