“And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?”
And he wrote down the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men — The youth lists 77 princes and elders. The act of writing (כָּתַב, katav) elevates the act from spontaneous passion to deliberate state action. The specificity suggests organized purge.
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