Hakim-hakim 8:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu kata Gideon: "Kalau begitu, apabila TUHAN menyerahkan Zebah dan Salmuna ke dalam tanganku, aku akan menggaruk tubuhmu dengan duri padang gurun dan onak."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu kata Gideon: "Kalau begitu, apabila TUHAN menyerahkan Zebah dan Salmuna ke dalam tanganku, aku akan menggaruk tubuhmu dengan duri padang gurun dan onak."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu kata Gideon: Maka sebab demikian, apabila diserahkan Tuhan Zebah dan Tsalmuna kepada tanganku, niscaya aku kelak menyesah tubuhmu dengan duri dan onak dari padang.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And Gedeon came to Iordane to passe ouer, he & the three hundred men that were with him weery, and yet folowed the chase. ⁵ And he sayd vnto ye men of Sucoth: Geue I pray you, takes of bread vnto ye people that folow me, for they be fayntie, that I may folowe after Zebah, and Zalmana, kynges of Madian. ⁶ And the lordes of Sucoth sayde: Are the handes of Zebah and Zalmana now in thyne handes, that we should geue bread vnto thyne armie? ⁷ Gedeon sayde: Therfore when the Lord hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmana into mine hande, I will teare the fleshe of you with the thornes of the wildernes, and with bryers. ⁸ And he went vp thence to Phanuel, & spake vnto them lykewyse: And ye men of Phanuel aunswered him, as did the men of Sucoth. ⁹ And he sayd also vnto the men of Phanuel: When I come agayne in peace, I will breake downe this towre. ¹⁰ Zebah & Zalmana were in Carcor, and their hoastes with them, vpon a fifteene thousande men, which were all that were left of all the hoastes of them of the east: For there was slaine an hundred and twentie thousande men that drewe swordes. ¹¹ And Gedeon went thorowe them that dwelt in tabernacles on the east syde of Nobah and Iegbahah, and smote the hoaste: for the hoaste dyd cast no perylles. ¹² And whan Zebah and Zalmana fled, he folowed after them, and toke ye two kynges of Madian, Zebah and Zalmana, and discomfited all the hoaste. ¹³ And Gedeon the sonne of Ioas, returned from battel afore the sunne was vp,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tear: Heb. thresh, Judges 8:16

Reciprocal: Judges 8:15 - upbraid 1 Chronicles 20:3 - with saws

Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
And all Rauens after their kinde,

1 Kings 17:4
Thou shalt drinke of the ryuer, and I haue commaunded the rauens to feede thee there.

1 Kings 17:6
And the rauens brought him bread and fleshe in the morning, and likewyse bread and fleshe in the euening: and he drancke of the brooke.

Job 38:41
Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?

Psalms 147:9
He geueth vnto cattell their foode: [euen] vnto Rauens which call for it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gideon said,.... In answer to the princes of Succoth:

therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand; of which he made no doubt, having the promise of God that he would deliver the host of Midian into his hand, on which his faith rested; and having it in great part performed already, most firmly believed the full performance of it, see Judges 7:7

then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with briers; which grew in a wilderness near this city, and from whence as Kimchi thinks, it had its name; the word "Succoth" being used for thorns in Job 41:7 and the sense is, either that he would scourge them with thorns and briers; or, as the Targum thrust their flesh upon them; which Kimchi interprets of casting their naked bodies upon thorns and briers, and then treading on them with the feet; or draw a cart over them as they thus lay, in like manner as it was usual to do when corn was threshed out; see Isaiah 28:27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:7. I will tear your flesh — What this punishment consisted in I cannot say; it must mean a severe punishment: as if he had said, I will thresh your flesh with briers and thorns, as corn is threshed out with threshing instruments; or, Ye shall be trodden down under the feet of my victorious army, as the corn is trodden out with the feet of the ox.

Succoth was beyond Jordan, in the tribe of Gad. Penuel was also in the same tribe, and not far distant from Succoth.