THEOSISJudges 8:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.
וַיִּקַּח֙ אֶת־זִקְנֵ֣י הָעִ֔יר וְאֶת־קוֹצֵ֥י הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר וְאֶת־הַֽבַּרְקֳנִ֑ים וַיֹּ֣דַע בָּהֶ֔ם אֵ֖ת אַנְשֵׁ֥י סֻכּֽוֹת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Judg 8:7And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.
- Ezra 2:6The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two thousand eight hundred twelve.
- Mic 7:4He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.
- Prov 19:29Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.
- Prov 10:13In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.