Judges 8:6 meaning and explanation

But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”

Judges 8:6, Berean Standard Bible

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Gideon and his exhausted three hundred men have crossed the Jordan in pursuit of the Midianite kings Zebah and Zalmunna. He asks the town of Succoth for bread, and its leaders answer with a mocking question, quoted here verbatim, about whether the kings are already in his hands.

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