Judges 7:1
HOST. camp.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOST. camp.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. lest, &c. This is the real reason of this direction.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT GILEAD. What was more natural than that the half tribe of Manasseh on the west side of Jordan should so name. mount in _their_ tribe in compliment to the famous mount on the east side? (Genesis 31:21; Genesis 37:25.Numbers 32:1; Numbers 32:40; Deuteronomy 3:15.Joshua 17:1; Joshua 17:1). Gideon... [ Continue Reading ]
LAPPETH: i.e. without kneeling down as idolaters were accustomed to do (1Ki 19:18. 2 Chronicles 29:9. See note on Esther 3:2. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE. So the 300 are called.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMALEKITES. See note on Exodus 17:16. CHILDREN. sons. GRASSHOPPERS. locusts. AS THE SAND, &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia._... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD... BEHOLD... LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (three times). App-6. A DREAM. See note on Genesis 20:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. _ha-'Elohim_ here (= the God), because in connection with Midianites, His creatures. Not Jehovah, App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMPS. torches, which smoulder till waved in the air.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SWORD. These words are supplied by Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ from Judges 7:20. But some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read these words in the text. Literally "For Jehovah and for Gideon".... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT. hill country.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO PRINCES. Compare Psalms 83:11.Isaiah 10:26.... [ Continue Reading ]