1. Judges 6:29 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the townsmen’s investigation demonstrate?

Judges 6:29 (ESV)

29 And they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And after they had searched and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”

Their investigation demonstrates their zeal for Baal, in the three back-to-back imperfect verbs that describe it:… and they inquired, and they asked, and they said.1

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