_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD: AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF MIDIAN SEVEN YEARS._ The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian. Untaught by their former experiences, the Israelites again apostatized, and new sins were followed by fresh judgments. Mi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE HAND OF MIDIAN PREVAILED AGAINST ISRAEL: AND BECAUSE OF THE MIDIANITES THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MADE THEM THE DENS WHICH ARE IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND CAVES, AND STRONG HOLDS._ Because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains ... Palestine is a mount... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SO IT WAS, WHEN ISRAEL HAD SOWN, THAT THE MIDIANITES CAME UP, AND THE AMALEKITES, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST, EVEN THEY CAME UP AGAINST THEM;_ The Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, х_ BªNEEY_ (H1121) _ QEDEM _ (H6924)] - Arab tribes, Ishmaelites, called "c... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM, AND DESTROYED THE INCREASE OF THE EARTH, TILL THOU COME UNTO GAZA, AND LEFT NO SUSTENANCE FOR ISRAEL, NEITHER SHEEP, NOR OX, NOR ASS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEY CAME UP WITH THEIR CATTLE AND THEIR TENTS, AND THEY CAME AS GRASSHOPPERS FOR MULTITUDE; FOR BOTH THEY AND THEIR CAMELS WERE WITHOUT NUMBER: AND THEY ENTERED INTO THE LAND TO DESTROY IT._ They came as grasshoppers for multitude х_ KªDEEY_ (H1767) _ 'ARBEH_ (H697) _ LAAROB_ (H7230) THEY CAM... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISRAEL WAS GREATLY IMPOVERISHED BECAUSE OF THE MIDIANITES; AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT THE LORD SENT A PROPHET UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH SAID UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, I BROUGHT YOU UP FROM EGYPT, AND BROUGHT YOU FORTH OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE;_ The Lord sent a prophet. This prophet exercised the pastoral office only. Like the man of God commissi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL THAT OPPRESSED YOU, AND DRAVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU, AND GAVE YOU THEIR LAND;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SAT UNDER AN OAK WHICH WAS IN OPHRAH, THAT PERTAINED UNTO JOASH THE ABI-EZRITE: AND HIS SON GIDEON THRESHED WHEAT BY THE WINEPRESS, TO HIDE IT FROM THE MIDIANITES._ There came an angel of the Lord. The Vulgate renders it, the Lord (himself). He appeared in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD IS WITH THEE, THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON SAID UNTO HIM, OH MY LORD, IF THE LORD BE WITH US, WHY THEN IS ALL THIS BEFALLEN US? AND WHERE BE ALL HIS MIRACLES WHICH OUR FATHERS TOLD US OF, SAYING, DID NOT THE LORD BRING US UP FROM EGYPT? BUT NOW THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN US, AND DELIVERED US INTO THE HANDS OF THE MIDIANITES._ If the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD LOOKED UPON HIM, AND SAID, GO IN THIS THY MIGHT, AND THOU SHALT SAVE ISRAEL FROM THE HAND OF THE MIDIANITES: HAVE NOT I SENT THEE?_ Go in this thy might ... have not I sent thee? The command and the promise made Gideon aware of the real character of his visitor; and yet, like Moses, f... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, OH MY LORD, WHEREWITH SHALL I SAVE ISRAEL? BEHOLD, MY FAMILY IS POOR IN MANASSEH, AND I AM THE LEAST IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_DEPART NOT HENCE, I PRAY THEE, UNTIL I COME UNTO THEE, AND BRING FORTH MY PRESENT, AND SET IT BEFORE THEE. AND HE SAID, I WILL TARRY UNTIL THOU COME AGAIN._ Until I ... bring ... my present - Hebrew, my minchaah, or meat offering; and his idea probably was to prove, by his visitor's partaking of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GIDEON WENT IN, AND MADE READY A KID, AND UNLEAVENED CAKES OF AN EPHAH OF FLOUR: THE FLESH HE PUT IN A BASKET, AND HE PUT THE BROTH IN A POT, AND BROUGHT IT OUT UNTO HIM UNDER THE OAK, AND PRESENTED IT._ The flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot - (see the note at Genesis 18:... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ANGEL OF GOD SAID UNTO HIM, TAKE THE FLESH AND THE UNLEAVENED CAKES, AND LAY THEM UPON THIS ROCK, AND POUR OUT THE BROTH. AND HE DID SO._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME NIGHT, THAT THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, TAKE THY FATHER'S YOUNG BULLOCK, EVEN THE SECOND BULLOCK OF SEVEN YEARS OLD, AND THROW DOWN THE ALTAR OF BAAL THAT THY FATHER HATH, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVE THAT IS BY IT:_ And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD THY GOD UPON THE TOP OF THIS ROCK, IN THE ORDERED PLACE, AND TAKE THE SECOND BULLOCK, AND OFFER A BURNT SACRIFICE WITH THE WOOD OF THE GROVE WHICH THOU SHALT CUT DOWN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE ON THAT DAY HE CALLED HIM JERUBBAAL, SAYING, LET BAAL PLEAD AGAINST HIM, BECAUSE HE HATH THROWN DOWN HIS ALTAR._ Therefore ... he called him - not Joash, but the people, so that it is equivalent to 'he was called.' JERUBBAAL i:e., with whom Baal contends; or Jerubbesheth (2 Samuel 11:2... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ALL THE MIDIANITES AND THE AMALEKITES AND THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND WENT OVER, AND PITCHED IN THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL._ All the Midianites ... pitched in ... Jezreel. Jezreel means 'God sows.' The confederated troops of Midian, Amalek, and their neighbours, crossing t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON, AND HE BLEW A TRUMPET; AND ABI-EZER WAS GATHERED AFTER HIM._ The Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon. Called in this sudden emergency into the public service of his country, he was supernaturally endowed with wisdom and energy commensurate with the magn... [ Continue Reading ]