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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...
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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...
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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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HOSTS. camps.
CHILDREN. Hebrew sons....
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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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_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...
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CHILDREN OF THE EAST— _Children of Kedem; i.e. Ishmaelites._ Hiller.
Onomastic. p. 534....
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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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_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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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וְ זֶ֨בַח וְ צַלְמֻנָּ֜ע בַּ †
קַּרְקֹ֗ר...
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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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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...
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_Resting, as the Hebrew word Korkor, signifies. (Bochart) ---
Protestants have, in Karor," as if it were the name of a place.
(Haydock)_...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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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AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN THAT DREW SWORD:
Or, an hundred and twenty thousand, every one drawing a sword...
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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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i.e. Persons expert and exercised in war, besides the retainers to
them, JUDGES 6:5....
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‘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...
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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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2 Chronicles 13:17; 2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Chronicles 28:8; 2 Kings
3:26;...
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That drew sword — That is, persons expert and exercised in war,
besides the retainers to them....