Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 8:10
That drew sword — That is, persons expert and exercised in war, besides the retainers to them.
That drew sword — That is, persons expert and exercised in war, besides the retainers to them.
Verse Judges 8:10. _ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA WERE IN KARKOR_] If this were a _place_, it is nowhere else mentioned in Scripture. Some contend that קרקר _karkor_ signifies _rest_; and thus the Vulgate under...
Zebah and Zalmunna seem to have fled nearly due east to Karkor, which was probably an enclosure of some kind (perhaps a walled sheepfold, compare Numbers 31:32 note). Its site is unknown; but it was n...
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...
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...
HOSTS. camps. CHILDREN. Hebrew sons....
_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...
_Karkor_ Site unknown, probably near the edge of the Syrian desert. _all that were left … drew sword_ These words have the appearance of an attempt to bring the present narrative into harmony with the...
CHILDREN OF THE EAST— _Children of Kedem; i.e. Ishmaelites._ Hiller. Onomastic. p. 534....
_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?...
_NOW ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA WERE IN KARKOR, AND THEIR HOSTS WITH THEM, ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN, ALL THAT WERE LEFT OF ALL THE HOSTS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST: FOR THERE FELL AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THO...
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...
KARKOR] unknown. The other two places are probably SE. of the Jabbok. The Midianites were making for the desert (cp. Numbers 32:35; Numbers 32:42). For the numbers cp. Judges 7:13. Gideon's first levy...
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...
IN KARKOR. — This was the scene of the third battle, or massacre. When they had reached this distant point they probably felt secure. _Karkor_ means, “a safe enclosure,” and the Vulg., regarding it as...
וְ זֶ֨בַח וְ צַלְמֻנָּ֜ע בַּ † קַּרְקֹ֗ר...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] (g) in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twe...
_Resting, as the Hebrew word Korkor, signifies. (Bochart) --- Protestants have, in Karor," as if it were the name of a place. (Haydock)_...
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...
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...
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...
NOW ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA WERE IN KARKOR..... Jerom u under this word says, there was in his time a castle called Carcuria, a day's journey from Petra, which was the metropolis of Idumea; but whether the...
Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty...
_There fell a hundred and twenty thousand men_ Such a terrible execution did they make among themselves, and so easy a prey were they to Israel. _That drew_ the _sword_ That is, persons expert and exe...
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...
THE END OF ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA...
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, near the headwaters of the Jabbok, AND THEIR HOSTS WITH THEM, ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN, ALL THAT WERE LEFT OF ALL THE HOSTS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST; FOR TH...
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...
AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN THAT DREW SWORD: Or, an hundred and twenty thousand, every one drawing a sword...
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...
i.e. Persons expert and exercised in war, besides the retainers to them, JUDGES 6:5....
Judges 8:10 Zebah H2078 Zalmunna H6759 Karkor H7174 armies H4264 fifteen H2568 H6240 thousand H505 left H3498 ...
‘Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen eleph men, all that were left of the host of the children of the east, for there fell a hundred and twenty eleph men th...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 13:17; 2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Chronicles 28:8; 2 Kings 3:26;...