9
So he said to the men of Peniel, "I'll be back after I've won the battle. Then I'll tear down this tower."
Judges 8:9 Meaning and Commentary
Ver. 9 And he spoke also unto the men of Penuel In a threatening way, as he had spoken to the men of Succoth: saying, when I come again in peace: having conquered all his enemies, and delivered Israel from their bondage, and restored peace and prosperity to them, of which he had no doubt:
I will break down this tower; pointing to it and which stood in their city, and in which they placed their confidence; and when he threatened them, boasted of it as their security.
7
Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”
8
From there he went up to Peniel and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had.
9
So he said to the men of Peniel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.”
10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.
11
Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army.