“He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Judges 8 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.