Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna,.... Not at Penuel or Succoth, but when he had brought them into the land of Canaan, and perhaps to his own city Ophrah:
what manner of men were they whom ye…
Barnes' Notes
What manner of men - literally, “Where are the men?” The sense, “what manner of men”, is merely gathered from the tenor of the answer. Gideon doubtless knew that his brethren had been killed by Zebah…
Judgment began at the house of God, in the just correction of the men of Succoth and Penuel, who were Israelites, but it did not end there. The kings of Midian, when they had served to demonstrate…
Cambridge Bible
at Tabor Mt Tabor is too far north if, as seems probable, Gideon's clan was settled near Shechem; see on Jdg 6:11. There may have been another Tabor near Ophrah.
As thou art, so were they powerful…