Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
When the tribes of Reuben, Gad and part of Manasseh had been permitted by Moses to take their inheritance on the east side of Jordan, those tribes made a solemn vow that they WOULD support their brethren who went on into Canaan, but the leaders of Succoth and Penuel here shamefully betrayed their western brethren by refusing to give even a few loaves of bread to Gideon and his bone-weary soldiers who were near exhaustion from their pursuit of Israel's enemies.