Judges 8:7-16

7Gideon replied, “Very well, when the Lord has handed Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will tear your flesh with thorns and briers from the wilderness!”

8He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.

9He also told the men of Penuel, “When I return safely, I will tear down this tower!”

10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about fifteen thousand men, who were all those left of the entire army of the people of the east. Those who had been killed were one hundred twenty thousand armed men.

11Gideon traveled on the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked their army while the army felt secure.

12Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them. He captured these two kings of Midian and routed the entire army.

13Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the Ascent of Heres.

14He captured a youth from the men of Succoth and interrogated him. The youth wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven leaders and elders of Succoth.

15Then he went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna. You taunted me about them, saying, ‘Are Zebah and Zalmunna now in your power that we should give bread to your exhausted men? ’”

16So he took the elders of the city, and he took some thorns and briers from the wilderness, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.