Judges 8:17

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He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 8:9 : 9 He also threatened the men of Penuel, warning,“When I return victoriously, I will tear down this tower.”
  • 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 8:7-10
    4 verses
    83%

    7Gideon said,“Since you will not help, after the LORD hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh your skin with desert thorns and briers.”

    8He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.

    9He also threatened the men of Penuel, warning,“When I return victoriously, I will tear down this tower.”

    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

  • Judg 8:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders– seventy-seven men in all.

    15He approached the men of Succoth and said,“Look what I have! Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying,‘You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?’”

    16He seized the leaders of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then“threshed” the men of Succoth with them.

  • Judg 9:44-47
    4 verses
    72%

    44Abimelech and his units attacked and blocked the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

    45Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.

    46When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard the news, they went to the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.

    47Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.

  • Judg 8:18
    70%

    18He said to Zebah and Zalmunna,“Describe for me the men you killed at Tabor.” They said,“They were like you. Each one looked like a king’s son.”

  • Judg 15:8
    70%

    8He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

  • Judg 9:49-52
    4 verses
    70%

    49So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the stronghold and set fire to it. All the people of the Tower of Shechem died– about a thousand men and women.

    50Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it.

    51There was a fortified tower in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

    52Abimelech came and attacked the tower. When he approached the entrance of the tower to set it on fire,

  • Judg 8:21
    69%

    21Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon,“Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.” So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

  • Judg 20:25
    69%

    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
    69%

    25They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • Judg 1:25
    69%

    25He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

  • Judg 3:13
    68%

    13Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the city of date palm trees.

  • Judg 20:39
    68%

    39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

  • Judg 20:48
    68%

    48The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.

  • Ezek 26:9
    68%

    9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

  • 2 Chr 34:6
    68%

    6In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

  • Judg 20:35
    68%

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • Judg 1:8
    68%

    8The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

  • 2 Sam 20:15
    67%

    15So Joab’s men came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab’s soldiers were trying to break through the wall so that it would collapse,