Judges 8:16 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ And he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them 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 Tagairtí Cros

Ezra 2:6

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

Proverbs 10:13

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

Proverbs 19:29

Condemnation is ready 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 watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

Judges 8:15

And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are faint?’ ”

Judges 8:17

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

Judges 8:7

And Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”