Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
"The youth drew not his sword, for he feared"  (Judges 8:20).  This is easily understood.  This writer's nephew went on a deer hunt, and, as luck would have it, a large buck walked right in front of him only a few yards up wind away, but the young man froze with the gun in his hand; he simply could not pull the trigger!  Slaying a fellow human being of course, would present an even greater shock to one who had never killed a man.