Discovery BoxJudges 3:13 
Context3:13 Eglon formed alliances with 1 the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.
Judges 8:16
Context8:16 He seized the leaders 2 of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them. 3
1 tn Heb “and he gathered to him.”
2 tn Heb “elders.”
3 tc The translation follows the reading of several ancient versions (LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) in assuming the form וַיָּדָשׁ (vayyadash) from the verb דּוֹשׁ (dosh, “thresh”) as in v. 7. The MT reads instead the form וַיֹּדַע (vayyoda’, “make known”), a Hiphil form of יָדַע (yadah). In this case one could translate, “he used them [i.e., the thorns and briers] to teach the men of Succoth a lesson.”
