9
He also told the men of Penuel, "When I return in peace, I will tear down this tower!"
Judges 8:9 In-Context
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.