They lifted up their heads no more That is, they recovered not their former strength or courage, so as to conquer or oppress others. The country was in quietness forty years To the fortieth year from the beginning of the Midianitish oppression; in the days of Gideon As long as Gideon lived.
Verse Judges 8:28. _FORTY YEARS IN THE DAYS OF GIDEON._] The Midianites were so completely humbled that they could make head no more against Israel during the forty years in which the government of Gi...
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...
GIDEON REFUSES A KINGDOM, AND ERECTS AN EPHOD. Long before the Israelites had any human kings. Yahweh was regarded as their Divine King, and Gideon, like Samuel (1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 10:19; 1 Samuel...
CHILDREN. sons. LIFTED UP THEIR HEADS NO MORE. made no more attempts to vex. WAS IN QUIETNESS. See note on Judges 3:11....
_Gideon refuses the kingship: he sets up an ephod: conclusion_ 22 _.the men of Israel_ Not the 300 of Judges 8:4, but the men who formed the army Judges 7:14; Judges 9:55, the Israelites drawn from Ep...
The Deuteronomic editor's conclusion of the story; cf. Judges 3:30 _n._and Judges 3:11 _n._...
_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?...
_THUS WAS MIDIAN SUBDUED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SO THAT THEY LIFTED UP THEIR HEADS NO MORE. AND THE COUNTRY WAS IN QUIETNESS FORTY YEARS IN THE DAYS OF GIDEON._ Thus was Midian subdued. This...
FORTY YEARS] cp. Judges 5:31. TOWARD MOAB] RV 'against the Moabites,' i.e. to prevent their returning....
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...
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...
THUS WAS MIDIAN SUBDUED. — This verse closes the second great epoch of Gideon’s life. The separate phrases occur in Judges 1:2; Judges 4:23; Judges 5:31. The remaining verses of the chapter furnish us...
וַ יִּכָּנַ֣ע מִדְיָ֗ן לִ פְנֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשׂ
GIDEON THE ECCLESIASTIC Judges 8:22 THE great victory of Gideon had this special significance, that it ended the incursions of the wandering races of the desert. Canaan offered a continual lure to th...
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...
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...
There is somewhat very remarkable in the agreement, between the times of the several periods in which the Lord gave rest to his people from their enemies, Forty years. Moses' life was divided into thr...
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...
THUS WAS MIDIAN SUBDUED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... By the hand of Gideon humbled and brought under, their power over Israel was broken, and they delivered out of their hands: SO THAT THEY LIF...
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. Ver. 28. _Forty years._] Beginni...
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 CONSEQUENCES OF THE CAMPAIGN...
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted Up their heads no more; they were effectually overthrown. AND THE COUNTRY WAS IN QUIETNESS FORTY YEARS IN THE DAYS OF GIDEON,...
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...
22-28 Gideon refused the government the people offered him. No good man can be pleased with any honour done to himself, which belongs only to God. Gideon thought to keep up the remembrance of this vi...
LIFTED UP THEIR HEADS NO MORE, i.e. recovered not their former strength or courage, so as to conquer or oppress others, as they had done. FORTY YEARS, i.e. to the fortieth year, from the beginning of...
Judges 8:28 Midian H4080 subdued H3665 (H8735) before H6440 children H1121 Israel H3478 lifted H5375 (H8800) heads...
‘ So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.' As a result of Gideon's work under Yahweh's ha...
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...
_Rule thou over us _. .. _ for thou hast delivered us._ GIDEON’S AFTER-LIFE Many a man does well in times of difficulty and danger who fails entirely in prosperity. It remains for us to see whether G...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 8:22 Despite God’s faithfulness to Gideon, he leads the people into improper worship practices. ⇐...
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...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 8:22, JUDGES 8:23 RULE THOU, etc. The gratitude of Israel to their great deliverer, added to a sense that it would be for their own security, and to a desire, already perhaps beginn...
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...
Isaiah 10:26; Isaiah 9:4; Judges 3:11; Judges 3:30; Judges 5:31;...
Lifted up their head — That is, recovered not their former strength or courage, so as to conquer or oppress others. Forty years — To the fortieth year, from the beginning of the Midianitish oppression...