Judges 8:9

So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.

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In The King James Version

And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

In Context

8So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.

10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:27And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.

Matthew Henry on Judges 8:5-18

Gideon Pursues the Midianites. ( b. c. 1249.) 4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? 7 And Gideon said, Therefore when… Read the whole commentary →

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