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Verse Judges 8:18. _WHAT MANNER OF MEN_ WERE THEY _WHOM YE SLEW AT
TABOR?_] We have no antecedent to this question; and are obliged to
conjecture one: it seems as if Zebah and Zalmunna had massacred...
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WHAT MANNER OF MEN - literally, “Where are the men?” The sense,
“what manner of men”, is merely gathered from the tenor of the
answer. Gideon doubtless knew that his brethren had been killed by
Zebah...
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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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A. the....
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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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_at Tabor_ Mt Tabor is too far north if, as seems probable, Gideon's
clan was settled near Shechem; see on Judges 6:11. There may have been
another Tabor near Ophrah.
_As thou art, so were they_ powe...
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THEN SAID HE UNTO ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA— The history is so extremely
short in this place, that we can only form conjectures: it is plain,
from the examination of these princes, that they had slain Gideon...
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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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_THEN SAID HE UNTO ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA, WHAT MANNER OF MEN WERE THEY
WHOM YE SLEW AT TABOR? AND THEY ANSWERED, AS THOU ART, SO WERE THEY;
EACH ONE RESEMBLED THE CHILDREN OF A KING._
Then said he unto...
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This private wrong of Gideon's is now mentioned for the first time.
TABOR] see on Judges 4:6....
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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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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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THEN SAID HE UNTO ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA. — They had been kept alive in
order to answer the cowardly taunt of the elders of Succoth. There is
nothing to show whether they were put to death at Succoth, as...
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וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר אֶל ־זֶ֨בַח֙ וְ אֶל
־צַלְמֻנָּ֔ע
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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 SNARE OF SUCCESS
Judges 8:13
Clearly Gideon's family had passed through some terrible tragedy
previous to this war of emancipation. He had not learned our Lord's
teaching of forgiveness and acted...
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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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_Thabor. Some of the relations or brothers of Gedeon had retired
thither, as to a place of safety; and the latter wished to know what
was become of them, that he might redeem them, if alive. (Calmet)...
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This event, in the death of those princes, forms a song of praise, and
a subject of prayer, in the after ages of the church. See Psalms
83:11. But let the Reader remark, in their destruction, the sure...
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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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THEN SAID HE UNTO ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA,.... Not at Penuel or Succoth,
but when he had brought them into the land of Canaan, and perhaps to
his own city Ophrah:
WHAT MANNER OF MEN WERE THEY WHOM YE SLEW...
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_What manner of men were they_, &c. In outward shape and quality.
_Whom ye slew at Tabor?_ Whither he understood his brethren had fled
for shelter upon the approach of the Midianites, and where he lea...
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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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Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, after his return to his own
tribe, WHAT MANNER OF MEN WERE THEY WHOM YE SLEW AT TABOR? He wanted a
description of their face and form, their general appearance. A...
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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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RESEMBLED:
_ Heb._ according to the form, etc...
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18-21 The kings of Midian must be reckoned with. As they confessed
themselves guilty of murder, Gideon acted as the avenger of blood,
being the next of kin to the persons slain. Little did they think...
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WHAT MANNER OF MEN, i.e. for outward shape and quality? AT TABOR;
whither he understood they fled for shelter, upon the approach of the
Midianites; and where he learnt that some were slain, which he
s...
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Judges 8:18 said H559 (H8799) Zebah H2078 Zalmunna H6759 What H375 men
H582 killed H2026 (H8804) Tabor...
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‘ Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What manner of men were
they whom you slew at Tabor?” And they answered, “As you are, so
were they. Each one resembled the children of a king.” '
“THEN SAID HE T...
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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 children of a king._
THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JESUS
There are family names that stand for wealth, or patriotism, or
intelligence. The name of Washington means patriotism, although some
of the blood of...
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CHAPTER 8
_FINAL DEALING WITH THE ENEMY—GIDEON’S LAST DAYS. Judges 8:18_
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 8:18. THEN SAID HE, etc.] This must have
taken place when Gideon arrived at home; for it was after his...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 8:13
BEFORE THE SUN WAS UP. There is a wonderful diversity in the
renderings of this verse. Some of the old versions and Jewish Rabbis
interpret it _before sunset. _Many of the best...
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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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Judges 4:6; Jude 1:16; Psalms 12:2; Psalms 89:12...
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What manner of men — For outward shape and quality. At Tabor —
Whither he understood they fled for shelter, upon the approach of the
Midianites; and where he learned that some were slain, which he
sus...