they refused to help out of fear of the enemy, aren't we sometimess just like this we are afraid to get involved to help someone even when we know they are right. But Gideon said he would return to punish them, I want to say hurray for him because he finally found a backbone, but it is not our place to punish anyone or to judge whethr they are right or wrong. This is the job of the Great Judge Christ himself. A lot of people are quick to judge another and two wrongs certainly don't make it right.