_THEN JERUBBAAL, WHO IS GIDEON, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, ROSE UP EARLY, AND PITCHED BESIDE THE WELL OF HAROD: SO THAT THE HOST OF THE MIDIANITES WERE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THEM, BY THE HILL OF MOREH, IN THE VALLEY._ Jerubbaal - (cf. Judges 6:32.) This had now become Gideon's honourable... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO GIDEON, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH THEE ARE TOO MANY FOR ME TO GIVE THE MIDIANITES INTO THEIR HANDS, LEST ISRAEL VAUNT THEMSELVES AGAINST ME, SAYING, MINE OWN HAND HATH SAVED ME._ The Lord said ... The people ... are too many. Although the Israelite army mustered only 32,000-o... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE GO TO, PROCLAIM IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING, WHOSOEVER IS FEARFUL AND AFRAID, LET HIM RETURN AND DEPART EARLY FROM MOUNT GILEAD. AND THERE RETURNED OF THE PEOPLE TWENTY AND TWO THOUSAND; AND THERE REMAINED TEN THOUSAND._ Now therefore ... proclaim ... Whosoever is fearful ... l... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO GIDEON, THE PEOPLE ARE YET TOO MANY; BRING THEM DOWN UNTO THE WATER, AND I WILL TRY THEM FOR THEE THERE: AND IT SHALL BE, THAT OF WHOM I SAY UNTO THEE, THIS SHALL GO WITH THEE, THE SAME SHALL GO WITH THEE; AND OF WHOMSOEVER I SAY UNTO THEE, THIS SHALL NOT GO WITH THEE, THE SA... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO HE BROUGHT DOWN THE PEOPLE UNTO THE WATER: AND THE LORD SAID UNTO GIDEON, EVERY ONE THAT LAPPETH OF THE WATER WITH HIS TONGUE, AS A DOG LAPPETH, HIM SHALT THOU SET BY HIMSELF; LIKEWISE EVERY ONE THAT BOWETH DOWN UPON HIS KNEES TO DRINK._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO GIDEON, BY THE THREE HUNDRED MEN THAT LAPPED WILL I SAVE YOU, AND DELIVER THE MIDIANITES INTO THINE HAND: AND LET ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE GO EVERY MAN UNTO HIS PLACE._ The Lord said ... By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you. It is scarcely possible to conceive a... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE PEOPLE TOOK VICTUALS IN THEIR HAND, AND THEIR TRUMPETS: AND HE SENT ALL THE REST OF ISRAEL EVERY MAN UNTO HIS TENT, AND RETAINED THOSE THREE HUNDRED MEN: AND THE HOST OF MIDIAN WAS BENEATH HIM IN THE VALLEY._ He sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent. ["The rest" are neither in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME NIGHT, THAT THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, ARISE, GET THEE DOWN UNTO THE HOST; FOR I HAVE DELIVERED IT INTO THINE HAND._ Arise, get thee down ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF THOU FEAR TO GO DOWN, GO THOU WITH PHURAH THY SERVANT DOWN TO THE HOST:_ GO THOU WITH PHURAH THY SERVANT. In ancient times it was reckoned no degradation for persons of the highest rank and character to act as spies on an enemy's camp: and so Gideon did on this occasion. But the secret erran... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT HEAR WHAT THEY SAY; AND AFTERWARD SHALL THINE HANDS BE STRENGTHENED TO GO DOWN UNTO THE HOST. THEN WENT HE DOWN WITH PHURAH HIS SERVANT UNTO THE OUTSIDE OF THE ARMED MEN THAT WERE IN THE HOST._ The outside of the armed men that were in the host. "Armed" х_ HACHªMUSHIYM_ (H2571); mar... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MIDIANITES AND THE AMALEKITES AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST LAY ALONG IN THE VALLEY LIKE GRASSHOPPERS FOR MULTITUDE; AND THEIR CAMELS WERE WITHOUT NUMBER, AS THE SAND BY THE SEA SIDE FOR MULTITUDE._ Lay along in the valley ... and their camels were without number - a most graphic descri... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN GIDEON WAS COME, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN THAT TOLD A DREAM UNTO HIS FELLOW, AND SAID, BEHOLD, I DREAMED A DREAM, AND, LO, A CAKE OF BARLEY BREAD TUMBLED INTO THE HOST OF MIDIAN, AND CAME UNTO A TENT, AND SMOTE IT THAT IT FELL, AND OVERTURNED IT, THAT THE TENT LAY ALONG._ I dreamed ... and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS FELLOW ANSWERED AND SAID, THIS IS NOTHING ELSE SAVE THE SWORD OF GIDEON THE SON OF JOASH, A MAN OF ISRAEL: FOR INTO HIS HAND HATH GOD DELIVERED MIDIAN, AND ALL THE HOST._ Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel, х_ 'IYSH_ (H376)] - a mighty or distinguished man of Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS SO, WHEN GIDEON HEARD THE TELLING OF THE DREAM, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF, THAT HE WORSHIPPED, AND RETURNED INTO THE HOST OF ISRAEL, AND SAID, ARISE; FOR THE LORD HATH DELIVERED INTO YOUR HAND THE HOST OF MIDIAN._ When Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation .... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DIVIDED THE THREE HUNDRED MEN INTO THREE COMPANIES, AND HE PUT A TRUMPET IN EVERY MAN'S HAND, WITH EMPTY PITCHERS, AND LAMPS WITHIN THE PITCHERS._ He divided the three hundred men. The object of dividing his forces was, that they might seem to be surrounding the enemy. HE PUT A TRUMPET IN... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, LOOK ON ME, AND DO LIKEWISE: AND, BEHOLD, WHEN I COME TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE CAMP, IT SHALL BE THAT, AS I DO, SO SHALL YE DO._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO GIDEON, AND THE HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM, CAME UNTO THE OUTSIDE OF THE CAMP IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE WATCH; AND THEY HAD BUT NEWLY SET THE WATCH: AND THEY BLEW THE TRUMPETS, AND BRAKE THE PITCHERS THAT WERE IN THEIR HANDS._ Gideon ... come ... in the beginning of the middle watch. I... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE THREE COMPANIES BLEW THE TRUMPETS, AND BRAKE THE PITCHERS, AND HELD THE LAMPS IN THEIR LEFT HANDS,_ _ AND THE TRUMPETS IN THEIR RIGHT HANDS TO BLOW WITHAL: AND THEY CRIED, THE SWORD OF THE LORD, AND OF GIDEON._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER OUT OF NAPHTALI, AND OUT OF ASHER, AND OUT OF ALL MANASSEH, AND PURSUED AFTER THE MIDIANITES._ The men of Israel gathered themselves together. These were evidently the parties dismissed, who, having lingered at a little distance from the scene of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON SENT MESSENGERS THROUGHOUT ALL MOUNT EPHRAIM, SAYING, COME DOWN AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, AND TAKE BEFORE THEM THE WATERS UNTO BETH-BARAH AND JORDAN. THEN ALL THE MEN OF EPHRAIM GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND TOOK THE WATERS UNTO BETH-BARAH AND JORDAN._ Gideon sent messengers throughou... [ Continue Reading ]