Judges 8:17
King James Version
“And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.”
Context
14And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, threescore and seventeen men.
15And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men weary?
16And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
17And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
18Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou so they; each one resembled the children of a king.
19And he said, They my brethren, the sons of my mother: the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
20And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he yet a youth.