‘ Then Zebul said to him, “Where is now your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Is not this the people that you have despised? Go out now I pray you, and fight with them.” '
The approaching forces were now so visible, and their purpose so obvious, that Zebul knew that he could keep up the pretence no longer. So now he challenged Gaal to live up to his boasting. Let him consider what he had said so arrogantly. He had spoken disparagingly of this people. So now let him prove his words and go out and fight them.