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Judg 8:12

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Judg 8:12 · Douay-Rheims
“And Zebee and Salmana fled, and Gedeon pursued and took them, all their host being put in confusion.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1871
A.D.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Reformed
1871
“when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them--A third conflict took place. His arrival at their last quarters, which was by an unwonted path, took the fugitives by surprise, and the conquest of the Midianite horde was there completed.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.