Judges 8:2

2. Is not the gleaning Is not the slaughter of these two chieftains a greater glory than all that I have done? The gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim, here, means the victory which these Ephraimites had gained by destroying Oreb and Zeeb. So memorable was this victory that Isaiah alludes to it as an instance of utter defeat and ruin. Isaiah 10:26. The vintage of Abi-ezer refers particularly to what Gideon and his three hundred had done. Gideon was an Abi-ezrite, and perhaps the three hundred were largely of the same family, who were the first to rally around him at the trumpet call. Judges 6:34. This attributing to the Ephraimites greater honour than he claimed for himself settled the quarrel at once. His soft answer turned away their wrath, and became a proverb.