_AND THE MEN OF EPHRAIM SAID UNTO HIM, WHY HAST THOU SERVED US THUS, THAT THOU CALLEDST US NOT, WHEN THOU WENTEST TO FIGHT WITH THE MIDIANITES? AND THEY DID CHIDE WITH HIM SHARPLY._ The men of Ephraim said ... Why hast thou served us thus? Where this complaint was made-whether before or after the c... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT HAVE I DONE NOW IN COMPARISON OF YOU? IS NOT THE GLEANING OF THE GRAPES OF EPHRAIM BETTER THAN THE VINTAGE OF ABI-EZER?_ He said ... What have I done now in comparison of you? His mild and truly modest answer breathes the spirit of a great as well as good man, who was c... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD HATH DELIVERED INTO YOUR HANDS THE PRINCES OF MIDIAN, OREB AND ZEEB: AND WHAT WAS I ABLE TO DO IN COMPARISON OF YOU? THEN THEIR ANGER WAS ABATED TOWARD HIM, WHEN HE HAD SAID THAT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON CAME TO JORDAN, AND PASSED OVER, HE, AND THE THREE HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM, FAINT, YET PURSUING THEM._ Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over - much exhausted, but eager to continue the pursuit until the victory was consummated.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO THE MEN OF SUCCOTH, GIVE, I PRAY YOU, LOAVES OF BREAD UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW ME; FOR THEY BE FAINT, AND I AM PURSUING AFTER ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA, KINGS OF MIDIAN._ He said unto the men of Succoth - i:e., a place of tents or booths. The name seems to have been applied to the who... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRINCES OF SUCCOTH SAID, ARE THE HANDS OF ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA NOW IN THINE HAND, THAT WE SHOULD GIVE BREAD UNTO THINE ARMY?_ The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand - an insolent as well as a time-serving reply. It was insolent, because it implied... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON SAID, THEREFORE WHEN THE LORD HATH DELIVERED ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA INTO MINE HAND, THEN I WILL TEAR YOUR FLESH WITH THE THORNS OF THE WILDERNESS AND WITH BRIERS._ I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with briers - a cruel torture, to which captives were often subje... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT UP THENCE TO PENUEL, AND SPAKE UNTO THEM LIKEWISE: AND THE MEN OF PENUEL ANSWERED HIM AS THE MEN OF SUCCOTH HAD ANSWERED HIM._ He went ... to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise - a neighbouring city, situated also in the territory of Gad, near the Jabbok, and honoured with this name... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SPAKE ALSO UNTO THE MEN OF PENUEL, SAYING, WHEN I COME AGAIN IN PEACE, I WILL BREAK DOWN THIS TOWER._ He spake ... When I come again ... I will break down this tower. Intent on the pursuit, and afraid of losing time, he postponed the merited vengeance until his return. His confident anticip... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA WERE IN KARKOR, AND THEIR HOSTS WITH THEM, ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN, ALL THAT WERE LEFT OF ALL THE HOSTS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST: FOR THERE FELL AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN THAT DREW SWORD._ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor - a town on the eastern confines... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON WENT UP BY THE WAY OF THEM THAT DWELT IN TENTS ON THE EAST OF NOBAH AND JOGBEHAH, AND SMOTE THE HOST: FOR THE HOST WAS SECURE._ Gideon went up by the way of them that dwell in tents on the east He tracked the fugitives across the GIDEON WENT UP BY THE WAY OF THEM THAT DWELL IN TENTS ON... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA FLED, HE PURSUED AFTER THEM, AND TOOK THE TWO KINGS OF MIDIAN, ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA, AND DISCOMFITED ALL THE HOST._ When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them. A third conflict took place. He arrived at their last quarters, which was by an unwonted path, took the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON THE SON OF JOASH RETURNED FROM BATTLE BEFORE THE SUN WAS UP,_ Gideon ... returned from battle before the sun was up. He seems to have returned by a nearer route to Succoth; because what is rendered in our version "before the sun was up," means 'the heights of Heres, the sunhills.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND CAUGHT A YOUNG MAN OF THE MEN OF SUCCOTH, AND INQUIRED OF HIM: AND HE DESCRIBED UNTO HIM THE PRINCES OF SUCCOTH, AND THE ELDERS THEREOF, EVEN THREESCORE AND SEVENTEEN MEN._ He described - wrote the names of the seventy princes and elders. (It is curious to find the primitive institution of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CAME UNTO THE MEN OF SUCCOTH AND SAID BEHOLD ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA WITH WHOM YE DID UPBRAID_ _ AND HE CAME UNTO THE MEN OF SUCCOTH, AND SAID, BEHOLD ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA, WITH WHOM YE DID UPBRAID ME, SAYING, ARE THE HANDS OF ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA NOW IN THINE HAND, THAT WE SHOULD GIVE BREAD UNTO THY... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK THE ELDERS OF THE CITY, AND THORNS OF THE WILDERNESS AND BRIERS, AND WITH THEM HE TAUGHT THE MEN OF SUCCOTH._ With them he taught the men of Succoth, х_ WAYODA`_ (H3045) _ BAAHEM_ (H871a) _ 'EET_ (H853) _ 'ANSHEEY _ (H376) _ CUKOWT_ (H5523), and with them made the men of Succoth know -... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BEAT DOWN THE TOWER OF PENUEL, AND SLEW THE MEN OF THE CITY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID HE UNTO ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA, WHAT MANNER OF MEN WERE THEY WHOM YE SLEW AT TABOR? AND THEY ANSWERED, AS THOU ART, SO WERE THEY; EACH ONE RESEMBLED THE CHILDREN OF A KING._ Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? This was one of the countles... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, THEY WERE MY BRETHREN, EVEN THE SONS OF MY MOTHER: AS THE LORD LIVETH, IF YE HAD SAVED THEM ALIVE, I WOULD NOT SLAY YOU._ They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother - that is, uterine brothers; but, in all countries where polygamy prevails, 'the son of my mother' implies a clos... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO JETHER HIS FIRSTBORN, UP, AND SLAY THEM. BUT THE YOUTH DREW NOT HIS SWORD: FOR HE FEARED, BECAUSE HE WAS YET A YOUTH._ He said unto Jether his first-born, Up, and slay them. The nearest of kin was the go'el - i:e., blood avenger; and Jether, though but little more than a boy, was... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA SAID, RISE THOU, AND FALL UPON US: FOR AS THE MAN IS, SO IS HIS STRENGTH. AND GIDEON AROSE, AND SLEW ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA, AND TOOK AWAY THE ORNAMENTS THAT WERE ON THEIR CAMELS' NECKS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO GIDEON, RULE THOU OVER US, BOTH THOU, AND THY SON, AND THY SON'S SON ALSO: FOR THOU HAST DELIVERED US FROM THE HAND OF MIDIAN._ Rule thou over us ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON SAID UNTO THEM, I WILL NOT RULE OVER YOU, NEITHER SHALL MY SON RULE OVER YOU: THE LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU._ The Lord shall rule over you. Their unbounded admiration and gratitude prompted them, in the enthusiasm of the moment, to raise their deliverer to a throne, and to establish a ro... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON SAID UNTO THEM, I WOULD DESIRE A REQUEST OF YOU, THAT YE WOULD GIVE ME EVERY MAN THE EARRINGS OF HIS PREY. (FOR THEY HAD GOLDEN EARRINGS, BECAUSE THEY WERE ISHMAELITES.)_ Gideon said ... I would desire a request of you. This was the contribution of х_ NEZEM_ (H5141), singular] an earrin... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY ANSWERED, WE WILL WILLINGLY GIVE THEM. AND THEY SPREAD A GARMENT, AND DID CAST THEREIN EVERY MAN THE EARRINGS OF HIS PREY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WEIGHT OF THE GOLDEN EARRINGS THAT HE REQUESTED WAS A THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED SHEKELS OF GOLD; BESIDE ORNAMENTS, AND COLLARS, AND PURPLE RAIMENT THAT WAS ON THE KINGS OF MIDIAN, AND BESIDE THE CHAINS THAT WERE ABOUT THEIR CAMELS' NECKS._ Ornaments - crescent-like plates of gold suspende... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON MADE AN EPHOD THEREOF, AND PUT IT IN HIS CITY, EVEN IN OPHRAH: AND ALL ISRAEL WENT THITHER A WHORING AFTER IT: WHICH THING BECAME A SNARE UNTO GIDEON, AND TO HIS HOUSE._ Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city ... Ophrah. That no idolatrous use was in view, nor any divisive... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS WAS MIDIAN SUBDUED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SO THAT THEY LIFTED UP THEIR HEADS NO MORE. AND THE COUNTRY WAS IN QUIETNESS FORTY YEARS IN THE DAYS OF GIDEON._ Thus was Midian subdued. This invasion of the Arab hordes into Canaan was as alarming and desolating as the irruption of the Huns... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JERUBBAAL THE SON OF JOASH WENT AND DWELT IN HIS OWN HOUSE._ Jerubbaal ... went and dwelt in his own house. Bochart conjectures that Gideon is the person meant by Sanchoniathon, the Phoenician historian, under the name of Jerombaal, priest of the god Jao, not only from the close resemblance of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON HAD THREESCORE AND TEN SONS OF HIS BODY BEGOTTEN: FOR HE HAD MANY WIVES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS GIDEON WAS DEAD, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TURNED AGAIN, AND WENT A_ _ AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS GIDEON WAS DEAD, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TURNED AGAIN, AND WENT A WHORING AFTER BAALIM, AND MADE BAALBERITH THEIR GOD._ The children of Israel ... made Baal-... [ Continue Reading ]