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See also Judges 7 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGES 6-8. GIDEON DELIVERS ISRAEL FROM THE MIDIANITES. The next war was waged, not against disciplined soldiers, but against a horde of nomads from the eastern desert. The Midianites are represented...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Gideon delivers Israel from the Midianites_ For some years the Midianites had been the terror of Central Palestine. These nomad Arabs from the S.E. desert used to pour into the country during harves...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 7 Judges 7:1-8 _Selection of Gideon's three hundred._ Gideon started out with thirty-two thousand men in his army. When he allowed everyone who was fearful to return, twenty-two t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 ruled, (a-12) _ Shaphat_ , lit. 'judged.' country (b-32) Lit. 'fields,' 'farmlands,' as ver. 6, and elsewhere. As 2 Kings 8:3 ,2 Kings 8:5 ....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    VII. 1. The two camps. Judges 7:2. Gideon is bidden to dismiss all who are afraid. Judges 7:4. The remaining ten thousand are tested by the way in which they drink at the fountain of Harod, and only 3...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 7 In this chapter we have an account of the army under Gideon gathered out of several tribes, which from 32,000 were reduced to three hundred, and we are told by what means thi...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Gideon's army reduced. (1-8) Gideon is encouraged. (9-15) The defeat of the Midianites. (16-22) The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb. (23-25) #1-8. God provides that the praise of victory may be whol...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 7. GIDEON SMITES THE MIDIANITE CONFEDERACY. In this chapter we have an account of the army gathered out of several tribes under Gideon, which were finally reduced under God's instructions from...

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