Here Gideon explicitly declares the way the war will end. The Limhites will "fulfil the oath which have made unto him…" Notice how foreign this seems. We have the victors of a battle being concerned with honoring an oath with the man they have captured, and who is completely at their mercy. Notice also that the honorable fulfillment of the oath will place the Limhites again in "bondage." Of course Gideon supposes that it may be the original bondage through the oath, or destruction at the hands of a larger army that surely will not be ambushed a second time. Nevertheless, the issue is the oath, with all of its consequences.