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CHAPTER 8 INTERNAL STRIFE, GIDEON'S FAILURE AND END
_ 1. The strife (Judges 8:1)_
2. The complete deliverance (Judges 8:10)
3. Gideon's failure and end (Judges 8:22)
4. Israel's failure after Gide...
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THE PURSUIT ON THE EAST OF JORDAN. This section is not continuous with
the preceding one. The men of Israel, who were gathered together after
the battle (Judges 7:23), and the Ephraimites, who were so...
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HOST. camp....
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_The pursuit on the east of Jordan_
This section is clearly not the continuation of the verses which
immediately precede (see p. 68); if its antecedents are to be found in
the foregoing narrative at...
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Describes Gideon's route going E. from Penuel. _by the way of them
that dwelt in tents_is a doubtful rendering of a doubtful text. With
slight corrections we may transl. _towards the way of the
tent-d...
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_Gideon Captures and Slays Midian's Kings Judges 8:1-28_
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?...
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_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 th...
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HISTORY OF THE JUDGES (JUDGES 3:5 TO JUDGES 16:31)
On this, the main section of the book, see Intro. § 2 and List of
Oppressions and Judges. The larger part of the book is concerned with
six of the Ju...
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THE WAY OF THEM THAT DWELT IN TENTS] i.e. the road usually taken by
the nomads....
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 8
V1 The people in Ephraim’s *tribe asked Gideon, ‘Why have you
done this to us? Why did you not call us when you went to fight the
people from Midi...
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BY THE WAY OF THEM THAT DWELT IN TENTS. — He seems to have taken a
wide circuit, through some nomad district, leaving the main road,
which runs through Nobah and Jogbehah, so as once more to make up f...
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וַ יַּ֣עַל גִּדְעֹ֗ון דֶּ֚רֶךְ הַ
שְּׁכוּנֵ֣י...
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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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A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH
Judges 7:24; Judges 8:1
The fleeing host made for the three fords of the Jordan, and with all
haste Gideon summoned the tribes to anticipate them. The way of the
vict...
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Following the deliverance from the oppression of Midian, Gideon had to
deal with internal troubles. The people of Ephraim objected that he
had not called them to his help. The men of Succoth and Penue...
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Gideon soothed the hurt feelings of Ephraim by telling them that,
though they were called late to the battle, their grape gathering had
been more fruitful than all the vintage of Abiezer. Gideon and h...
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And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in (h) tents on the
east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was
secure.
(h) He went by the wilderness where the Arabians dwelt in...
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_Tents. The Scenitæ, (Menochius) who inhabited part of the desert
Arabia. (Calmet) --- Hurt. They had probably been mounted on camels,
&c., (Haydock) and did not suspect that Gedeon would be so soon a...
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The men of Succoth, and of Penuel, were Israelites by descent, but
sadly degenerated from the spirit of Israel. The Reader will
recollect, however, that these things happened during the time of the
co...
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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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Nevertheless, they did not all unite with Gideon in pursuit of the
Midianites. But, for the moment, Gideon despises the cowardice which
disowns him through a remaining fear of the oppressor's power. O...
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AND GIDEON WENT UP BY THE WAY OF THEM THAT DWELL IN TENTS,.... That is
of the Arabians and Kedarenes, who dwelt in tents for the sake of
feeding their flocks, as the Targum and Jarchi; he did not purs...
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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.
Ver. 11. _And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in...
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_By the way of them that dwelt in tents_ That is, the Arabians, termed
_Scenitæ_, from their dwelling in tents. He fetched a compass by
their country, and so poured in upon the rear of Zebah and Zalmu...
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1 Gideon pacifieth the Ephraimites.
4 Succoth and Penuel refuse to relieue Gideons army.
10 Zebah and Zalmunna are taken.
13 Succoth and Penuel are destroyed.
17 Gideon reuengeth his brethrens dea...
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And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east
of Nobah and Jogbehah, the easternmost cities of Gad, AND SMOTE THE
HOST, attacking, apparently, from the northeast, from which di...
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THE END OF ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA...
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GRIEVOUS WORDS AND A SOFT ANSWER
(vv. 1-3)
But the men of Ephraim were resentful that Gideon had called them so
late rather than when he began his campaign against Midian (v.1). They
did not stop to...
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4-12 Gideon's men were faint, yet pursuing; fatigued with what they
had done, yet eager to do more against their enemies. It is many a
time the true Christian's case, fainting, and yet pursuing. The w...
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OF THEM THAT DWELT IN TENTS, i.e. of the Arabians; so fetching a
compass, and falling upon them where they least expected it. NOBAH AND
JOGBEHAH; of which cities see NUMBERS 32:35,42. THE HOST WAS SEC...
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Judges 8:11 Gideon H1439 up H5927 (H8799) road H1870 dwell H7931
(H8803) tents H168 east H6924 Nobah...
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‘And Gideon went up by the way of those who dwelt in tents on the
east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host for they were off their
guard.'
With his men hungry and fainting Gideon visited the sem...
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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: Jealousy of Ephriam. Events to the death of Gideon.
Apostasy.
CHARACTERS: God, Gideon, Zebah, Zalmunna, Abimelech, Jerubbaal,
Jether.
CONCLUSION: Many are led into false ways by one false...
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Judges 8:16. _He taught the men of Succoth._ The LXX read, _he
threshed_ them. This little city of forty or fifty families was
blinded, in giving this answer to Gideon. Soldiers fighting for their
cou...
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_The princes of Succoth _. .. _ The men of Penuel._
PATIENCE UNDER PROVOCATION
Instead of being supported, as they had good right to expect they
would have been, by those who profess to be the Lord’s...
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_THE COMPLETION OF THE LORD’S DELIVERANCE OF HIS PEOPLE. Judges 8:1_
CRITICAL NOTES.—
JUDGES 8:1. AND THE MEN OF EPHRAIM SAID, etc.] _i.e_.—after Gideon
had reached the trans-Jordanic side of the riv...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 8:4
CAME TO JORDAN. The narrative goes back to Judges 7:24, to follow up
the personal history of Gideon, from which the writer had been
diverted to relate the result of Gideon's mes...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Judges, chapter eight?
The Ephraimites were troublemakers. And in chapter eight we find them
giving Gideon a bad time. But we see with what splendid diplomac...
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1 Samuel 15:32; 1 Samuel 30:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Judges 18:27;...
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That dwelt in tents — That is, of the Arabians, so fetching a
compass, and falling upon them where they least expected it. Was
secure — Being now got safe over Jordan, and a great way from the
place o...