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Judges 8:18
“Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "They were like you. Each one resembled the children of a king.”
Verse in context — Judges 8
16
He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
17
He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
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Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "They were like you. Each one resembled the children of a king.
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He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.
20
He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them!" But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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