Judges 8:2

Gideon, like his father (Judges 6:31), had the ready wit to extricate himself from an awkward situation. For the gleaning of the grapessee Isaiah 17:6; Micah 7:1; the word is used of fruit, not of corn. Ephraim indeed arrived late upon the scene, but they had the glory of capturing the chiefs. Gideon speaks only of Abiezer, his own clansmen; the 300 warriors chosen from different tribes, Judges 7:2-8, belong to another version of the story. Probably Judges 8:3 was followed by Judges 8:29 in the original narrative.