The written list would enable Gideon to punish the guilty and spare the innocent people. Succoth was governed by a sanhedrim or council of seventy …

Caught a young man. — Compare to Judges 1:24.

Described. — Margin: wrote, that is: the boy wrote …

He probably slew the most public revilers, the leading men of Penuel, just as he had chastised the princes and elders of Succoth with thorns and br…

And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of
him
Just before he came…

The active servants of the Lord meet with more dangerous opposition from false professors than from open enemies; but they must not be troubled by …