Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 259

8-5 THE BOOK OF THE PERIOD OF THE ]UDGES. 8-25 5 and said to the people of Sukoth, ‘Give, I entreat you, alittle bread to the men who arc with me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebakh and Tzalmuna., the kings of my: Whizfs nf Sakai}; refuse also in supply $2:: nc Sash. 6 But the masters of Sukoth re- Are the hands of Zebakh and Tzalmuna in your power, that we should give you any bread When

the EvzR·LivING gives Zebakh and Tzalmuna into my power, then I will inform your governors with thorns from the desert and with briars.’ @32 §2¤plz of ¥lptnn¤l also 1‘2f1IZ£ Sltpplith From there he went to Phanual,

and asked them the same, but the men of Phanual answered like the men of Sukoth, so Gideon also replied to the men of Phanual, ‘When I return with peace, I will throw down this towering Phanual. .c. 1248.) ®ihzmt aiiarks ily: Gump I0 II I2 nf Zzlmkly ann Wgelmnmz. Now Zebakh and Tzelmuna. were

encamped at Karkar with about fifteen thousand men, all they had left them; but with the wholeicamp of the Beni—Kedem, a hundred and twenty thousand infantry, accom- plished swordsmen. Gideon conse- quently advanced by the lower road to the Generals pavilion from the east of Nobakh and Yagbah, and attacked the camp whilst the camp was resting in security. Zebakh and Tzalmuna, however, fled, and he pur- sued them, and captured both the kings of Midian,——Zebakh and Tzal- muna,-—and all the camp was thrown into confusion. (nc. 1247.) ®ihz¤it returns from £¤rll3zru ,2\ralsis Mitinrimxs, mth puuislyzs §ulwil;. When Gideon-ben—Yoash returned

from the war, coming up from the desert, he captured a young man from the people of Sukoth and questioned him, and he described to him the chief men of Sukoth, and the seven aldermen and the seven council men. Then he advanced against the Here are Zebakh and Tzalmuna, about whom you insulted me, saying, ‘Is the hand of Zebakh and Tzalmuna in your power yet that we should give '1`henhe seized the aldermen of the town, and informed the people of Sukoth with the thorns and briars of the desert. Next he threw down, the tower of Phanual, and killed the chiefs of the village. 16

(nc. 1248.) Zzlmlil; mth Egulmune hrmrglyt in Wrial for murbzriug Giuzmfs Qrnihrrs. Then he asked Zebakh and Tzal-

What sort of men were they whom you murdered at Thabor? ’ Like yourself!

Each one in appearance like the dis- tinguished son of a king! ’ They were

my brothers! Sons of my mother! As Gon lives to mel if you had spared their lives I would not have killed you! ’ Then he said to }ether his Hrst

But the youth did not draw his sword, because he was afraid,-—for he was only a lad. So Zebakh and Tzalmuna Get up yourself and assail us, like a man in his vigour/‘ Gideon then arose and killed Zebakh and Tzal- muna, and took the crescents that were upon the necks of their camels. 21 18 zo (s.c. 1247.) Israel luislyzs Gihznu in he it Qing. The Men of Israel afterwards said 22 Rule over us,-··you and your son, and your descendants, for you have saved us from the hand of @2 refuses liiugsrbip, but asks u Shure ef ilye ¥rige rnpiureb.

I will

not be Governor over you ; nor shall my son govern you: The EVER- But I request each of you to give me a ring from your plunder. (For as they were Ishmaelites they wore gold rings.) We will give

so he spread his cloak, and each threw upon it a ring ann 24 lg