1. Judges 8:14 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is striking about Gideon’s first actions after the war?

Judges 8:14 (ESV)

14 And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.

Instead of executing the Midianite kings for the evil they did to his people for the last seven years, he first goes to take vengeance on the men of Succoth and Penuel.