Juges 8:7

Darby's French Translation

Et Gédéon dit: A cause de cela, dès que l'Éternel aura livré Zébakh et Tsalmunna en ma main, je broierai votre chair avec des épines du désert et avec des chardons.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et Gédéon dit: Eh bien! Lorsque l'Éternel aura livré Zébach et Tsalmuna entre mes mains, je briserai votre chair avec des épines du désert et avec des chardons.

Louis Segond (1910)
Et Gédéon dit: Eh bien! lorsque l'Eternel aura livré entre mes mains Zébach et Tsalmunna, je broierai votre chair avec des épines du désert et avec des chardons.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et Gédeon dit : Quand donc l'Eternel aura livré Zébah et Tsalmunah en ma main, je froisserai alors votre chair avec des épines du désert, et avec des chardons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tear: Heb. thresh, Judges 8:16

Reciprocal: Judges 8:15 - upbraid 1 Chronicles 20:3 - with saws

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gideon said,.... In answer to the princes of Succoth:

therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand; of which he made no doubt, having the promise of God that he would deliver the host of Midian into his hand, on which his faith rested; and having it in great part performed already, most firmly believed the full performance of it, see Judges 7:7

then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with briers; which grew in a wilderness near this city, and from whence as Kimchi thinks, it had its name; the word "Succoth" being used for thorns in Job 41:7 and the sense is, either that he would scourge them with thorns and briers; or, as the Targum thrust their flesh upon them; which Kimchi interprets of casting their naked bodies upon thorns and briers, and then treading on them with the feet; or draw a cart over them as they thus lay, in like manner as it was usual to do when corn was threshed out; see Isaiah 28:27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:7. I will tear your flesh — What this punishment consisted in I cannot say; it must mean a severe punishment: as if he had said, I will thresh your flesh with briers and thorns, as corn is threshed out with threshing instruments; or, Ye shall be trodden down under the feet of my victorious army, as the corn is trodden out with the feet of the ox.

Succoth was beyond Jordan, in the tribe of Gad. Penuel was also in the same tribe, and not far distant from Succoth.