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Verse Judges 8:7. _I WILL TEAR YOUR FLESH_] What this punishment
consisted in I cannot say; it must mean a severe punishment: as if he
had said, I will thresh your flesh with briers and thorns, as cor...
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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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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._...
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_I will tear_ THRESH as marg. In the East threshing is done by
_treading_(e.g. Isaiah 28:28), which is what the verb here means;
Gideon promises to trample their flesh TOGETHER WITH _thorns of the
des...
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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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_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 SAID, THEREFORE WHEN THE LORD HATH DELIVERED ZEBAH AND
ZALMUNNA INTO MINE HAND, THEN I WILL TEAR YOUR FLESH WITH THE THORNS
OF THE WILDERNESS AND WITH BRIERS._
I will tear your flesh with...
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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 GROVES] RV 'the asheroth.' The word (another plural) means the
sacred poles set up near an altar, which were common in Seniitic
worship (even Solomon's temple had' pillars': see on 1 Kings 7:21)....
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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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AND GIDEON SAID. — Notice in this verse the mixture of heroic faith
and barbarous severity. It was this courage and faith (Hebrews 11:32)
which ennobled Gideon and made him an example for all time. Th...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר גִּדְעֹ֔ון לָכֵ֗ן בְּ
תֵ֧ת יְהוָ֛
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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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_Desert. An usual mode of punishment, (2 Kings xii., and 1
Paralipomenon xx. 3.; Calmet) which the cruel irrision of Gedeon and
his army, who were fighting in the cause of God and of the nation,
richl...
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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 SAID,.... In answer to the princes of Succoth:
THEREFORE WHEN THE LORD HATH DELIVERED ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA INTO MINE
HAND; of which he made no doubt, having the promise of God that he
would...
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Judges 8:7 ; JUDGES 8:9. _With the thorns of the wilderness_ The city
was near a wilderness that abounded with thorns and briers. _Penuel_
Another city beyond Jordan; both were in the tribe of Gad. _I...
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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 said, Therefore, when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and
Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns
of the wilderness and with briers, using these as threshing-flai...
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DIFFICULTIES WITH EPHRAIM AND THE CITIES SUCCOTH AND PENUEL...
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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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TEAR:
_ Heb._ thresh...
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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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WITH THE THORNS which grow abundantly in the neighbouring wilderness;
I will chastise or beat your naked bodies with thorny rods, even unto
death. Or, I will lay you down upon thorns on the ground, an...
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Judges 8:7 Gideon H1439 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 delivered H5414
(H8800) Zebah H2078 Zalmunna H6759 hand...
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‘ And Gideon said, “Therefore when the Lord has delivered Zebah
and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will thresh your flesh with the
thorns of the wilderness, and with briers.” '
Harsh though this may so...
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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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Judges 8:16...