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Gideon said, “The Lord will give Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand. Then I will beat your bodies with the thorns and thistles from the desert.” From there he went up to Penuel and spoke to them in the same way. The men of Penuel gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth. So he said to the men of Penuel, “When I return safe, I will tear down this tower.”

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Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna(A) into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”

From there he went up to Peniel[a](B) 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.”(C)

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Footnotes

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