15. Then he went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna. You taunted me about them, saying, ‘Are Zebah and Zalmunna now in your power that we should give bread to your exhausted men? ’ ”
16. So he took the elders of the city, and he took some thorns and briers from the wilderness, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.
17. He also tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
18. He asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor? ”“They were like you,” they said. “Each resembled the son of a king.”
19. So he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother! As the Lord lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”