Judges 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

What was done was done by God's immediate making them one to kill another; what I have done, in cutting off some of the fugitive common soldiers, is not to be compared with your exploit in destroying their princes; I began the war, but you have finished. The gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim; what you have gleaned or done after me. Of Abi-ezer, i.e. of the Abi-ezrites, to whom he modestly communicateth the honour of the victory, and doth not arrogate it to himself, as generals commonly do.

Judges 8:2

2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?