“And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.”
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him — Gideon seizes a youth (נַעַר, na'ar) for coercive interrogation. His premeditated gathering of names reveals calculation and vengeance, not spontaneous military necessity. The judge becomes an executioner.
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