Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Judges 6:4
Unto Gaza] i.e. the whole country from the Jordan to the coast. Gaza was a Philistine town on the SW. of Palestine which they did not venture to pass.
Unto Gaza] i.e. the whole country from the Jordan to the coast. Gaza was a Philistine town on the SW. of Palestine which they did not venture to pass.
Verse Judges 6:4. _ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM_] Wandering hordes of Midianites, Amalekites, and Ishmaelites came, in the times of harvest and autumn, and carried away their crops, their fruit, and their ca...
Gaza indicates the extreme point south to which they spread their devastations, crossing the Jordan near Bethshan (Scythopolls), and entering by the valley of Jezreel, and sweeping along the whole of...
4. FOURTH DECLENSION: UNDER MIDIAN AND GIDEON, TOLA AND JAIR CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Israel's suffering from Midian (Judges 6:1)_ 2. Their repentance and the divine answer (Judges 6:7) 3. Gideon, the deliv...
THE DEPREDATIONS OF THE MIDIANITES. D, whose phrases occur in Judges 6:1 f., Judges 6:6, sees in the ebb and flow of Israel's fortune an index of their moral and spiritual condition. National sufferin...
_Gaza_ in the far south-west, near the coast; a long way from the Manassite district....
_The Midianite oppression_ 1 _._The Deuteronomic editor introduces a fresh subject in his accustomed manner: cf. Judges 2:11; Judges 2:14; Judges 3:7; Judge
Gideon of Manasseh and Abimelech Judges 6:1 to Judges 9:57 _Midian Oppresses Israel Judges 6:1-10_ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the h...
_AND THEY ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM, AND DESTROYED THE INCREASE OF THE EARTH, TILL THOU COME UNTO GAZA, AND LEFT NO SUSTENANCE FOR ISRAEL, NEITHER SHEEP, NOR OX, NOR ASS._ No JFB commentary on this verse...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 The stories about Gideon and his son, Abimelech are the most important ones in the book. John J. Davies says, ‘Gideon is the ideal judge like Mose...
THEY ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM. — It is not implied that there were any battles. The Israelites were too wretched and helpless to offer any resistance. These Arabs would swarm over the Jordan, at the ford...
וַ יַּחֲנ֣וּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם וַ יַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ֙ אֶת...
THE DESERT HORDES; AND THE MAN AT OPHRAH Judges 6:1 JABIN king of Canaan defeated and his nine hundred chariots turned into ploughshares, we might expect Israel to make at last a start in its true ca...
AT THE MERCY OF MIDIAN Judges 5:24; Judges 6:1 What a contrast our reading suggests between those that love the Lord and go from strength to strength in the undimming luster and influence of their li...
After the passing of these forty years, sin again brought punishment. The people passed under the oppression of Midian. It was oppression of the severest kind and lasted for seven years. A terrible pi...
When Israel again did evil in the sight of God, he delivered them into the hands of the Midianites, who were descendants of Abraham and Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2). They were allied in the oppression of...
And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto (b) Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. (b) Even almost the whole cou...
Blade. Hebrew, "the increase of the earth." They waited till the corn was almost ripe, and what they could not carry off they destroyed. (Calmet) --- It seems they had allowed Gedeon time to gather in...
How hath the Holy Ghost marked with precision, this very state of punishment which the Lord exercises over the sins of his people. See Leviticus 26:16....
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...
But again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and He delivered them into the hand of Midian. And the children of Israel cried again unto Jehovah. God reveals the cause of their di...
AND THEY ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM,.... Formed a camp, from whence they sent out parties to plunder the people; or "they were fixing their tents among them,'' as the Vulgate Latin version; and so the Ta...
And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. Ver. 4. _And destroyed the increa...
_The children of the east_ Probably the Ishmaelites, or Arabians, especially the eastern part of them. _Unto Gaza_ That is, from the east, on which side they entered, to the west, where Gaza was, near...
1 The Israelites for their sinne are oppressed by Midian. 8 A prophet rebuketh them. 11 An Angel sendeth Gideon for their deliuerance. 17 Gideons Present is consumed with fire. 24 Gideon destroyet...
and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, by wantonly plundering and devastating the harvest-fields, TILL THOU COME UNTO GAZA, the raids thus extending across the entire...
THE OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN...
THE OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN (vv.1-10) However, Israel again repeated the evil of departing from the Lord. This time the Lord used Midian to put them under a yoke of oppression which lasted seven years...
SHEEP: Or, goat...
1-6 Israel's sin was renewed, and Israel's troubles were repeated. Let all that sin expect to suffer. The Israelites hid themselves in dens and caves; such was the effect of a guilty conscience. Sin d...
TILL THOU COME UNTO GAZA, i.e. from the east, on which side they entered, to the west, where Gaza was near the sea; so they destroyed the whole land....
Judges 6:4 encamp H2583 (H8799) destroy H7843 (H8686) produce H2981 earth H776 far H935 (H8800) Gaza...
‘ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth as far as Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.' They took up temporary residence over a wid...
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: More apostasy in Israel. Call of Gideon. CHARACTERS: God, Angel of Jehovah (Jesus), Holy Spirit, Gideon, prophet, Joash. CONCLUSION: In times of apostasy, God often calls His mightiest ser...
Judges 6:1. _The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian,_ the descendants of Abraham's fourth son by Keturah, who oppressed them for seven years. Genesis 25:2. Judges 6:3. _The children of the ea...
_Because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens _. .. _ and caves and strongholds._ DIVINE PUNISHMENT THROUGH NATURAL MEANS Thus God gets at men through various means. The Midian...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:1__ The fifth judge was Gideon, who fought the Midianites twice. The first time he followed God’s instructions (Judges 7:1); the second time he did not ...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:2 The Midianites oppressed the Israelites so greatly that they were forced to live in DENS and CAVES, and they couldn’t harvest their CROPS....
_ISRAEL’S RELAPSE INTO SIN, AND THEIR OPPRESSION BY THE MIDIANITES. Judges 6:1_ CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 6:1. DID EVIL, etc.] Not _continued_ to do evil, though that is implied (pp. 158, 186). Deborah...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 6:1 MIDIAN. In Numbers 22:7 we read of the Midianites as allied with the Moabites in their hostility to the children of Israel, and we find them willing agents of Balaam s iniquitou...
So again the rest for forty days but then in chapter six, AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years. And the han...
Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:51; Genesis 10:19;...
Unto Gaza — That is, from the east, on which side they entered, to the well, where Gaza was, near the sea: so they destroyed the whole land....