“And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers — Gideon's vow (וְדַשְׁתִּי אֶת־בְשַׂרְכֶם, literally 'I will thresh your flesh') invokes brutal punishment through threshing. His certainty in divine deliverance is matched by his willingness to personally inflict retribution, revealing the vengeful impulse beneath the judge's piety.
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