Judges 8:16
Good News Translation
He then took thorns and briers from the desert and used them to punish the leaders of Sukkoth.

New Revised Standard Version
So he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them he trampled the people of Succoth.

Contemporary English Version
Gideon made a whip from thorn plants and used it to beat the town officials.

New American Bible
He seized the elders of the city, and with desert thorns and briers he thrashed the people of Succoth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.

the elders

Judges 8:7 And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.

Proverbs 10:13 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.

Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Ezra 2:6 The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two thousand eight hundred twelve.

thorns

Micah 7:4 He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.

taught.

Context
Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna
15And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and Salmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and faint. 16So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.17And he demolished the tower of Phanuel, and slew the men of the city.…
Cross References
Judges 8:15
And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and Salmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and faint.

Judges 8:17
And he demolished the tower of Phanuel, and slew the men of the city.

Judges 8:15
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