_THEN NAHASH THE AMMONITE CAME UP, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST JABESH-GILEAD: AND ALL THE MEN OF JABESH SAID UNTO NAHASH, MAKE A COVENANT WITH US, AND WE WILL SERVE THEE._ Then Nahash the Ammonite came up - Nahash, serpent (see the note at Judges 8:3). AND ENCAMPED AGAINST JABESH-GILEAD - on the east of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NAHASH THE AMMONITE ANSWERED THEM, ON THIS CONDITION WILL I MAKE A COVENANT WITH YOU, THAT I MAY THRUST OUT ALL YOUR RIGHT EYES, AND LAY IT FOR A REPROACH UPON ALL ISRAEL._ Thrust out all your right eyes - literally, scoop or hollow out the ball. This barbarous mutilation is the usual punishme... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ELDERS OF JABESH SAID UNTO HIM, GIVE US SEVEN DAYS' RESPITE, THAT WE MAY SEND MESSENGERS UNTO ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL: AND THEN, IF THERE BE NO MAN TO SAVE US, WE WILL COME OUT TO THEE._ The elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite. It may appear surprising that this ba... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CAME THE MESSENGERS TO GIBEAH OF SAUL, AND TOLD THE TIDINGS IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE: AND ALL THE PEOPLE LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES, AND WEPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, SAUL CAME AFTER THE HERD OUT OF THE FIELD; AND SAUL SAID, WHAT AILETH THE PEOPLE THAT THEY WEEP? AND THEY TOLD HIM THE TIDINGS OF THE MEN OF JABESH._ Saul came after the herd out of the field., [The Septuagint, mistaking _ BAAQAAR_ (H1241), an ox, for _ BOQER _ (H1242), morning, has:... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON SAUL WHEN HE HEARD THOSE TIDINGS, AND HIS ANGER WAS KINDLED GREATLY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK A YOKE OF OXEN, AND HEWED THEM IN PIECES, AND SENT THEM THROUGHOUT ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL BY THE HANDS OF MESSENGERS, SAYING, WHOSOEVER COMETH NOT FORTH AFTER SAUL AND AFTER SAMUEL, SO SHALL IT BE DONE UNTO HIS OXEN. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD FELL ON THE PEOPLE, AND THEY CAME OUT WITH... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE NUMBERED THEM IN BEZEK, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND THE MEN_ _ AND WHEN HE NUMBERED THEM IN BEZEK, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND THE MEN OF JUDAH THIRTY THOUSAND._ Bezek. This place of general muster was not far from Shechem, on the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID UNTO THE MESSENGERS THAT CAME, THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO THE MEN OF JABESH-GILEAD, TO MORROW, BY THAT TIME THE SUN BE HOT, YE SHALL HAVE HELP. AND THE MESSENGERS CAME AND SHEWED IT TO THE MEN OF JABESH; AND THEY WERE GLAD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS SO ON THE MORROW, THAT SAUL PUT THE PEOPLE IN THREE COMPANIES; AND THEY CAME INTO THE MIDST OF THE HOST IN THE MORNING WATCH, AND SLEW THE AMMONITES UNTIL THE HEAT OF THE DAY: AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THEY WHICH REMAINED WERE SCATTERED, SO THAT TWO OF THEM WERE NOT LEFT TOGETHER._ On t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAMUEL, WHO IS HE THAT SAID, SHALL SAUL REIGN OVER US? BRING THE MEN, THAT WE MAY PUT THEM TO DEATH._ THE PEOPLE SAID ... WHO ... SAID, SHALL SAUL REIGN OVER US? The enthusiastic admiration of the people, under the impulse of grateful and generous feelings, would have dealt... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID, THERE SHALL NOT A MAN BE PUT TO DEATH THIS DAY: FOR TO DAY THE LORD HATH WROUGHT SALVATION IN ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE PEOPLE WENT TO GILGAL; AND THERE THEY MADE SAUL KING BEFORE THE LORD IN GILGAL; AND THERE THEY SACRIFICED SACRIFICES OF PEACE OFFERINGS BEFORE THE LORD; AND THERE SAUL AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL REJOICED GREATLY._ All the people went to Gilgal ... and there they sacrificed sacrifices of... [ Continue Reading ]