1. Ke kaloku amaEfrayim athi kuGidiyon: “Bekutheni ukuze ungasibizi thina ukuphuma kwakho usiya kulwa namaMidiyan? Ngani ukuba usiphathe kanje?” Amxoxisa ngamandla.
2. Ke yena waphendula wathi: “Ukukhwahlaza kwenu, maEfrayim, kube nengeniso egqithe lé kwisivuno sethu, thina ndlu ka-Abhiyezere.
3. Kaloku uThixo uzinikele ezandleni zenu zombini iinkosi zamaMidiyan, uOrebhe noZebhe. Ngaba yintoni na mna endiyenzileyo egqithe oko nikwenzileyo nina?” Akuba etshilo ke yadamba ingqumbo yamaEfrayim ngakuGidiyon.
4. Ngeli thuba ke uGidiyon nomkhosi wakhe omakhulu mathathu bafika kwiJordan. Nakuba babediniwe bayiwela, bawasukela amaMidiyan.
5. Bakufika eSukoti uGidiyon wathi kubantu bakhona: “Umkhosi wam udiniwe; khaniwuphe isonka, kuba ndisukela ookumkani bamaMidiyan uZebha noZalmuna.”
6. Amadoda amakhulu aseSukoti ala, athi: “Yini le? Ngaba sewuboyisile ooZebha noZalmuna, khon' ukuze umkhosi wakho siwunike isonka?”
7. UGidiyon ke wathi: “Hayi ke, kulungile! Akuba ebanikele kum *uNdikhoyo ooZebha noZalmuna, nina ndiya kuniphala ngameva nenkunzane.”
8. Wagqitha ke waya kutsho ePenuweli, nalapho ke wenza kwaeso sicelo kubantu balapho; nabo ke bamphendula kwangolo hlobo lwamaSukoti.
9. Wathi ke kubo: “Akukho nto. Ndiza kubuya xa ndiloyisile utshaba, ndaye ke ndakuba ndibuyile ndiya kuyidiliza le nqaba yenu.”
10. Ke uZebha noZalmuna nomkhosi wabo babeseKarekore. Kuloo mkhosi wabantu basempumalanga kwakuwe amadoda akwisithuba samawaka alikhulu elinamashumi amabini, kwasala ishumi elinesihlanu lamawaka kuphela.
11. UGidiyon ke wenjenjalo ukumka ngaloo ndlela yabemi basentlango, ngakwimpuma yeNobha neJogebheha, waza wawuqubula loo mkhosi, wawoyisa.
12. Ke bona ookumkani abo, uZebha noZalmuna, babaleka, waza ke wabasukela wababamba, watsho nomkhosi wabo warhwaqela.
13. Ekubuyeni kwakhe kwelo dabi uGidiyon unyana kaJowashe wahamba ngendlela eqabela kwinkalo yeHeres,
14. waza wabamba umfana waseSukoti, wamncina ngemibuzo. Lo mfana wabhalela uGidiyon amagama amadoda amakhulu angamashumi asixhenxe anesixhenxe aseSukoti.