Jueces 8:15

15 Luego regresó a Sucot y les dijo a los líderes: «Aquí están Zeba y Zalmuna. Cuando pasamos por aquí antes, ustedes se burlaron de mí diciendo: “Primero captura a Zeba y a Zalmuna, y después alimentaremos a tu agotado ejército”».

Jueces 8:15 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 8:15

And he came unto the men of Succoth
Entered the city, and bespoke the inhabitants of it in the following manner:

and said, behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me;
as not in his hands, and never would be, he being with his three hundred men an unequal match to them with 15,000; but he had taken them, and brought them with him, and perhaps spared them for this very reason, to let them see they were in his hands, and now calls upon them to behold them with their own eyes, concerning whom they had flouted and jeered him:

saying, are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we
should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
he delivers their own express words, which he had carefully observed and laid up in his memory, for their greater conviction and confusion; only adds the character of his men, that they were "weary", to expose their vile ingratitude the more, that they should refuse them a few loaves of bread, who were faint and weary in the service of them.

Jueces 8:15 In-Context

13 Después, Gedeón regresó de la batalla por el paso de Heres.

14 Allí capturó a un joven de Sucot y le exigió que pusiera por escrito los nombres de los setenta y siete líderes y ancianos de la ciudad.

15 Luego regresó a Sucot y les dijo a los líderes: «Aquí están Zeba y Zalmuna. Cuando pasamos por aquí antes, ustedes se burlaron de mí diciendo: “Primero captura a Zeba y a Zalmuna, y después alimentaremos a tu agotado ejército”».

16 Entonces Gedeón tomó a los ancianos de la ciudad y los castigó con espinas y zarzas del desierto para darles una lección.

17 También derribó la torre de Peniel y mató a todos los hombres de la ciudad.