Judges 7:2
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:2 LEST ISRAEL BOAST. God made it clear that the glory for this victory was to be all his. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:2 LEST ISRAEL BOAST. God made it clear that the glory for this victory was to be all his. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:3 The Mosaic laws allowed military exemptions for several classes of people, including those who were FEARFUL (Deuteronomy 20:5) since they might cause others to fear. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
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 as the “right” way, so this may be simply a means of reducing the number of men rather than a critiqu... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:10 God gave Gideon a preview of the coming victory by allowing him to enter the Midianite camp and overhear a Midianite’s dream about Israel’s triumph. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:13 TUMBLED literally means “turned itself over.” The loaf in the dream, symbolizing the SWORD OF GIDEON, “overturned” the Midianite camp. The dream provided the confirmation that Gideon needed, in light of his earlier fear (v. Judges 7:10). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getEle... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:18 FOR THE LORD AND FOR GIDEON is a war cry. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:19 MIDDLE WATCH. Jewish tradition divides the night into three segments, or “watches.” The later division into four watches (Matthew 14:25) seems to have been influenced by Roman practice. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.leng... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:20 A SWORD FOR THE LORD AND FOR GIDEON! Ironically, no Israelite swords were used at all, only torches, trumpets, and jars. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 7:22 The victory was clearly God’s. He turned the Midianites’ own swords against them (v. Judges 7:22) and they fled. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]