King James Version
Judges 8:9 in the King James Version says “And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.” — study this verse from Judges chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
Judges 8:9 · KJV
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. tear: Heb. thresh
And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. men that: or, every one drawing a sword
And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“of Penuel”
H6439penuel or peniel, a place east of jordan; also (as penuel) the name of two israelites
“When I come again”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“in peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“this tower”
H4026a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
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