SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:15
Y entrando a los de Sucot, dijo: He aquí a Zeba y a Zalmuna, sobre los cuales me zaheristeis, diciendo: ¿Está ya la mano de Zeba y de Zalmuna en tu mano, para que demos nosotros pan a tus varones cansados?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. And he came unto the men of Succoth , etc.] Entered the city, and bespoke the inhabitants of it in the following manner: and said, behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me ; as not in his hands, and never would be, he being with his three hundred men an unequal match to them with 15,000; but he had taken them, and brought them with him, and perhaps spared them for this very reason, to let them see they were in his hands, and now calls upon them to behold them with their own eyes, concerning whom they had flouted and jeered him: saying, are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary ? he delivers their own express words, which he had carefully observed and laid up in his memory, for their greater conviction and confusion; only adds the character of his men, that they were “weary”, to expose their vile ingratitude the more, that they should refuse them a few loaves of bread, who were faint and weary in the service of them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-17 - The active servants of the Lord meet with more dangerous oppositio from false professors than from open enemies; but they must not car for the behaviour of those who are Israelites in name, but Midianite in heart. They must pursue the enemies of their souls, and of the caus of God, though they are ready to faint through inward conflicts an outward hardships. And they shall be enabled to persevere. The less me help, and the more they seek to hinder, the more will the Lord assist Gideon's warning being slighted, the punishment was just. Many ar taught with the briers and thorns of affliction, who would not lear otherwise.
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 אל 413 אנשׁי 376 סכות 5523 ויאמר 559 הנה 2009 זבח 2078 וצלמנע 6759 אשׁר 834 חרפתם 2778 אותי 853 לאמר 559 הכף 3709 זבח 2078 וצלמנע 6759 עתה 6258 בידך 3027 כי 3588 נתן 5414 לאנשׁיך 376 היעפים 3286 לחם׃ 3899
