Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 8:14

"And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men." — Judges 8:14 (ASV)

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

Described. — Margin: wrote, that is: the boy wrote down their names (Septuagint, apegrapsato; Vulgate, descripsit).

Seventy-seven. — Perhaps a sort of local Sanhedrin of Seventy (Numbers 11:16), with their presiding sheikhs. The number shows that Succoth was a place of considerable importance.