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CHAPTER 7 THE VICTORY OF GIDEON
_ 1. The sifting of Gideon's army (Judges 7:1)_
2. The dream of the Midianite (Judges 7:9)
3. Victory through weakness (Judges 7:16)
Gideon “the cutter down,” now al...
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THE NIGHT ALARM AND ROUT. Gideon's stratagem consisted in the division
of his small force into three companies, who charged the enemy from
three sides at once, making an uproar and producing a panic....
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_The night attack_
The account of Gideon's bold and successful stratagem is perfectly
intelligible as a whole, though there is some confusion in the
details, chiefly due to the repetitions in Judges...
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_it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do_ This repetition of the
first half of the verse is perhaps due to an attempt to harmonize a
double narrative. Omit the words and the connexion with Judges 7:...
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_The Lamps and the Pitchers Judges 7:15-23_
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the
interpretation thereof, that he worshiped, and returned into the host
of Israel, and s...
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_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....
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THE ROUT OF MIDIAN
1-7. Gideon's choice of his Followers....
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 7
V1 Early in the morning, Jerubbaal (Gideon) and his men camped at the
*spring called Harod. The army from Midian had their camp north from
them. It...
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LOOK ON ME. — He showed all the three hundred the way in which he
wished them, at a given signal, to break the pitchers, wave the
torches, and shout. The signal would be given by the one hundred whom...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מִמֶּ֥נִּי
תִרְא֖וּ וְ...
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"MIDIAN'S EVIL DAY"
Judges 7:8 - Judges 8:1
THERE is now with Gideon a select band of three hundred, ready for a
night attack on the Midianites. The leader has been guided to a
singular and striking...
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"THE PEOPLE ARE YET TOO MANY"
Judges 6:33; Judges 7:1
ANOTHER day of hope and energy has dawned. One hillside at least rises
sunlit out of darkness with the altar of Jehovah on its summit and
holier...
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THE SWORD OF JEHOVAH AND OF GIDEON
Judges 7:9
Gideon _asked_ for the sign of the fleece, but God, _without his
asking,_ gave him that of the barley-cake. It was only barley-bread,
the cheapest and co...
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This is the story of perhaps one of the most remarkable conflicts in
the whole history of the people. As we have seen, it was a time when
they had been cruelly oppressed as the result of disobedience....
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The second invasion of the Midianites and their allies placed 135,000
troops in the land of Israel (Ruth 8:10). Yet, when God saw the number
of men who answered Gideon's call to arms, he said 32,000 m...
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_Camp. The three divisions stopt at the entrance, ver. 21. (Calmet)_...
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As the Holy Ghost, in his own comment on this battle, (Hebrews 11:32),
hath pronounced it to be a battle of faith, we have his authority to
mark the prominent features of it, agreeable to this account...
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The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of
His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their
practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
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Thirty-two thousand men followed Gideon. But Jehovah will not have so
many. He alone must be glorified in their deliverance. Their faith was
indeed so weak, even while the Spirit of God was at work, t...
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AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, LOOK ON ME, AND DO LIKEWISE,.... Observe what I
do, and do the same, in blowing a trumpet, breaking a pitcher, and
shouting with the words expressed by him:
AND, BEHOLD, WHEN I...
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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.
Ver. 17. _Look on me, and do likewise._] He was s...
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_He said to them, Look on me_ For though two hundred of his men were
placed on other sides of the camp, yet they were so disposed, that
some persons, set as watchmen, might see what was done, and give...
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1 Gideons armie of two and thirtie thousand is brought to three
hundred.
9 He is encouraged by the dreame and interpretation of the barley
cake.
16 His stratageme of trumpets and lampes in pitchers....
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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....
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THE DEFEAT OF THE MIDIANITES...
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ISRAEL'S ARMY REDUCED BY GOD
(vv. 1-9)
Gideon's influence had gathered 32,000 men, and they encamped south of
the encampment of the Midianites, prepared for battle (v. 1).Compared
to Midian, this ar...
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16-22 This method of defeating the Midianites may be alluded to, as
exemplifying the destruction of the devil's kingdom in the world, by
the preaching of the everlasting gospel, the sounding that tru...
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Judges 7:17 said H559 (H8799) Look H7200 (H8799) do H6213 (H8799)
watch H935 (H8802) edge...
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‘ And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he
put into the hands of all of them ram's horns, and empty pitchers,
with torches within the pitchers. And he said to them, “Watch me,...
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Judges 6-8
In the first words of Gideon we find the key to his character. (1) He
was a man who felt deeply the degradation of his people. He could not
enjoy his own harvest while the Midianites were r...
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CONTENTS: Gideon's three hundred and the victory over Midian and
Amalek.
CHARACTERS: God, Gideon, Phurah, Oreb, Zeeb.
CONCLUSION: God wants prepared men to fight God's battles with God's
weapons in...
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Judges 7:1. _The well of Harod;_ equivalent to terror, from the panic
of the Midianites. It is situate on the south side of Gilboa.
Judges 7:2. _The people with thee are too many,_ while human fears
s...
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_Arise, for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of
Midian._
DIVINE PROVIDENCE OVERRULING THE RESULT
I. The hand of the Lord visible in this deliverance.
1. In the general effect produce...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS_.—_Judges 7:15_
I. THE HAND OF THE LORD VISIBLE IN THIS DELIVERANCE.
It is quite manifest that the overruling Providence of God was at work
in all this to bring out the result. This...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 7:9
GET THEE DOWN, etc; _i.e_. attack the camp at once with thy 300 men.
But if thou art afraid to do so, go down first alone with Phurah thy
servant, and hear what they are saying...
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So in chapter seven,
[when] Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him,
rose up early, and they pitched beside the well of Harod (Judges 7:1):
Now the well of Harod is still there...
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1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 Peter 5:3; Hebrews 13:7; Judges 9:48; Matthew
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GIDEON, A HERO OF THE FAITH
Judges 7:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Hebrews eleven classes Gideon with the heroes of the faith. This may
well have been done. We need to remember, however, that Gideon lived
i...
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THE SWORD OF THE LORD AND OF GIDEON
Judges 7:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We are coming to our second study concerning Gideon. We are sure that
many things of value will be found in this remarkable chapter...
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Look on me — For though two hundred of his men were placed on other
sides of the camp; yet they were so disposed, that some persons, set
as watchmen, might see what was done, and give notice to the re...