Judges 8:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So he said to the people of Succoth, “Please give some loaves of bread to my followers, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Cross References

Genesis 14:18

And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 33:17

But Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house and made booths for his cattle; therefore the place is called Succoth.

Psalm 60:6

God has promised in his sanctuary, “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

Deuteronomy 23:4

because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Judges 5:23

Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord; curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the east, for one hundred twenty thousand men bearing arms had fallen.

Judges 8:12

Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and threw all the army into a panic.

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?’ ”

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys