Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
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Gill's Exposition
And Gideon said,.... In answer to the princes of Succoth:
therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand; of which he made no doubt, having the promise of God that he would…
In these verses we have,
I. Gideon, as a valiant general, pursuing the remaining Midianites, and bravely following his blow. A very great slaughter was made of the enemy at first: 120,000 men that…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
I will tear thresh as marg. In the East threshing is done by treading(e.g. Isa 28:28), which is what the verb here means; Gideon promises to trample their flesh together with thorns of the desert and…