Judges 8:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

Proverbs 10:13

In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found: But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

Judges 8:15

And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?

Judges 8:17

And he brake down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

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.