Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Judges 8:3
Then their anger was abated According to that fine maxim of Solomon, “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
Then their anger was abated According to that fine maxim of Solomon, “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
Verse Judges 8:3. _THEN THEIR ANGER WAS ABATED_] A soft answer turneth away wrath. He might have said that he could place but little dependence on his brethren when, through faint-heartedness, 22,000...
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 EPHRAIMITES APPEASED. After defeating the mighty foreign foe, Gideon had to settle a domestic dispute which might easily have become serious, and he again proved himself equal to the occasion. He...
GOD. Elohim delivered His creatures; not Jehovah the Covenant-God. App-4. ANGER. Hebrew. _ruach,_ spirit (App-9). Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for the angry manifestations of it....
DISCOURSE: 268 GIDEON PACIFIES THE EPHRAIMITES Judges 8:1. And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served its thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianite...
_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?...
_GOD HATH DELIVERED INTO YOUR HANDS THE PRINCES OF MIDIAN, OREB AND ZEEB: AND WHAT WAS I ABLE TO DO IN COMPARISON OF YOU? THEN THEIR ANGER WAS ABATED TOWARD HIM, WHEN HE HAD SAID THAT._ No JFB commen...
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...
THEN THEIR ANGER WAS ABATED TOWARDS HIM. — The soft answer turned away wrath (Proverbs 15:1). The word for anger is _mach,_ “wind,” or “spirit” — anger expressed by fierce breathing through the nostri...
בְּ יֶדְכֶם֩ נָתַ֨ן אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת ־שָׂרֵ֤י מִ
"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...
How gracious the mind of Gideon, in turning away wrath by gentleness. But observe, how Gideon points to the hand of God in all this business. See a sweet instance in the patriarch Joseph to the same e...
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...
GOD HATH DELIVERED INTO YOUR HANDS THE PRINCES OF MIDIAN, OREB AND ZEEB,.... A high honour this conferred upon you, and with which you may be well contented: AND WHAT WAS I ABLE TO DO IN COMPARISON O...
God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. Ver. 3. _And wh...
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...
God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison of you? As a real hero Gideon was truly humble and thereby, above all, gained his objec...
DIFFICULTIES WITH EPHRAIM AND THE CITIES SUCCOTH AND PENUEL...
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...
ANGER: _ Heb._ spirit...
1-3 Those who will not attempt or venture any thing in the cause of God, will be the most ready to censure and quarrel with such as are of a more zealous and enterprising spirit. And those who are th...
His soft and humble answer allayed their rage and envy. See PROVERBS 15:1, PROVERBS 25:15....
Judges 8:3 God H430 delivered H5414 (H8804) hands H3027 princes H8269 Midian H4080 Oreb H6159 Zeeb H2062 able...
“ God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and what was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated towards him when he said that.' Note the double...
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...
_Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better._ THE CONDUCT OF THE EPHRAIMITES 1. Their unthankfulness was great, and the injury which he sustained thereby, who ought to have been much honour...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 8:1 The Ephraimites complained that they had been called upon too late to take part in the battle, but Gideon’s flattering response soothed them. ⇐...
_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 8:1 THE MEN OF EPHRAIM. It is possible that the transfer of the birthright from Manasseh to Ephraim (Genesis 48:13-1) may have produced some estrangement between the tribes. It is a...
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...
John 4:37; Judges 7:24; Judges 7:25; Philippians 2:3; Proverbs 15:1;...
Was abated — His soft and humble answer allayed their rage....