“And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.”
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth — Gideon fulfills his vow literally. The phrase 'taught' (וַיֹּדַע, vayoda) is euphemistic: he threshes them with thorns, extracting flesh. His pedagogy is violence, teaching through pain.
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