Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The written (see the margin) list would enable Gideon to punish the guilty and spare the innocent people. Succoth was governed by a sanhedrim or council of seventy elders (compare Numbers 11:16), with perhaps seven others of superior rank called princes.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 8:14:
Judges 8:5
Ruth 4:2
1 Samuel 11:3
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