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TRY - The word used for refining metals by separating the dross from
the pure ore. They who threw themselves on the ground and drank freely
were the more self-indulgent; while they who, remembering th...
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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 REDUCTION OF GIDEON'S ARMY. This section teaches that Yahweh is
the giver of victory, and that it is as easy for Him to save by few as
by many (1 Samuel 14:6). The spring of Harod (trembling, _cf....
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Judges 7:1-8. _Gideon's army is reduced_
It seems to have been a fixed element in the tradition that 300 was
the number of Gideon's force (Judges 7:6; Judges 7:16;...
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_I will try them_ So elsewhere of Jehovah's _testing_the people,
Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 48:10; Psalms 66:10, a figurative expression
taken from the _smelting_of metals to get rid of impure properties....
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_Gideon's Men Reduced to Three Hundred Judges 7:1-14_
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon and all the people that were with him,
rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host
of the...
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_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO GIDEON, THE PEOPLE ARE YET TOO MANY; BRING
THEM DOWN UNTO THE WATER, AND I WILL TRY THEM FOR THEE THERE: AND IT
SHALL BE, THAT OF WHOM I SAY UNTO THEE, THIS SHALL GO WITH THEE,...
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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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THE PEOPLE ARE YET TOO MANY. — A fresh trial of faith; but small
numbers were essential for the method of victory by which God intended
that the deliverance should be achieved.
UNTO THE WATER. — i.e....
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל ־גִּדְעֹ֗ון
עֹוד֮ הָ
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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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QUANTITY VERSUS QUALITY
Judges 7:1
“No king is saved by the multitude of an host,” Psalms 33:16. God
does not need multitudes. It is false to say that He is “on the side
of the heaviest battalions.”...
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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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And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring
them down unto the water, and I will (b) try them for thee there: and
it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go w...
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The Reader will do well, in reading this scripture, to meditate what
he may suppose passed in the mind of Gideon, when, out of thirty-two
thousand, ten thousand only remained. And yet even of those te...
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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 THE LORD SAID TO GIDEON, THE PEOPLE ARE YET TOO MANY,.... Though
they were but just the number that Barak had with him, when he
attacked Sisera's army and got the victory, which yet was ascribed t...
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_The Lord said, The people are yet too many_ For my purpose, which is
so to deliver Israel that it may appear to be by my own act; that so I
may have all the glory, and they may be more strongly oblig...
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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 the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many, and there
was still danger of their vaunting themselves in case of a victory;
BRING THEM DOWN UNTO THE WATER, AND I WILL TRY THEM, put them...
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The Army Reduced....
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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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UNTO THE WATER; either that which ran from the well of Harod,
mentioned JUDGES 7:1, or some other brook. I WILL TRY THEM FOR THEE;
because thy proclamation hath not sufficiently tried them; for many
w...
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Judges 7:4 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Gideon H1439 people H5971 many
H7227 down H3381 (H8685) water...
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‘And Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Bring
them down to the water, and I will try (‘separate by refining') them
for you there. And it shall be, that of whom I say to you, this s...
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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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_Gideon _. .. _ pitched beside the wall of Harod._
GIDEON’S ARMY
I. The Lord called him to fight. The world must see, now and then, the
gigantic crimes of a mere man turned back by rival arms upon bo...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:4 EVERY ONE WHO LAPS... AS A DOG LAPS. The
second TEST for reducing Gideon’s forces took into account how men
drank water from a brook. Neither way of drinking is singled out a...
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_THE ARMY OF THE LORD’S DELIVERANCE_
I. THE DIMINUTION OF ITS NUMBERS
_Judges 7:1_
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 7:1. THEN JERUBBAAL.] The name is given as
_the challenger of Baal_, the man who, for the h...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 7:1
JERUBBAAL. The mention of this name seems intended to keep before our
minds that it is emphatically the servant of the Lord who is going
forth to victory. THE WELL OF HAROD, _i....
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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 Samuel 16:7; Genesis 22:1; Jeremiah 6:27; Job 23:10; Malachi 3:2;...
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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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The water — Either that which ran from the well of Harod, mentioned
Judges 7:1, or some other brook....