Judges 8:16 meaning and explanation
Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.
Judges 8:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Gideon is acting out the threat he made in verse 7. The men of Succoth had refused bread to his exhausted troops and taunted him that the Midianite kings were not yet captured (verses 5 and 6).
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