Judges 8:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ So he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he trampled the people of Succoth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And he took the elders of the city and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth [a lesson].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then he seized the city’s elders, and he beat the people of Succoth with desert thorns and briars.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, he took the elders of the city, and, using the thorns and briers of the desert, he threshed them with these, and he cut the men of Succoth to pieces.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert: and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.

Judges 8:16 Cross References

Ezra 2:6

Of Pahath-moab, namely, the descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

Proverbs 10:13

On the lips of one who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks sense.

Proverbs 19:29

Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their sentinels, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

Judges 8:15

Then he came to the people of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Do you already have in your possession the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna, that we should give bread to your troops who are exhausted?’ ”

Judges 8:17

He also broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

Judges 8:7

Gideon replied, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will trample your flesh on the thorns of the wilderness and on briers.”