Judges 8:9

Your confidence in which makes you thus proud and presumptuous. He implies that he would afterwards destroy their persons, as is expressed, Judges 8:17.

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Your tower — Your confidence in which makes you thus proud and presumptuous.

⁹ And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 8:9