The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did chide with him sharply.
"Why hast thou dealt thus with us?"  (Judges 8:1).  "Gideon's success mortified the pride of Ephraim, seeing that they had played a subordinate part."[1]  Also, "What was involved was more than glory, a share in the booty was at stake; and that meant a great deal to a people living in a mountainous country."[2]