Judges 7:1
The sites here mentioned are doubtful. MOREH] said to be near Shechem (Genesis 12:6; Deuteronomy 11:30). After the battle Gideon crosses the Jordan by the fords one would take if travelling from Shechem eastwards.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sites here mentioned are doubtful. MOREH] said to be near Shechem (Genesis 12:6; Deuteronomy 11:30). After the battle Gideon crosses the Jordan by the fords one would take if travelling from Shechem eastwards.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ROUT OF MIDIAN 1-7. Gideon's choice of his Followers.... [ Continue Reading ]
GILEAD] is E. of the Jordan: some other locality must be meant. For the return of the timid, cp. Deuteronomy 20:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably an arbitrary test. It is as easy to find abstract reasons for choosing those who stooped down as for rejecting them. The test in Judges 12:6 is very different. 8-25. The Rout of Midian.... [ Continue Reading ]
The author frankly admits that, in spite of Judges 6:34, Gideon is afraid to take the bolder course.... [ Continue Reading ]
A CAKE OF BARLEY BREAD] apparently a disk-like cake baked in the ashes: representing the Israelite peasants, as the tent represents the Midianite nomads.... [ Continue Reading ]
WORSHIPPED] bowed down before God.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMPS] RV 'torches.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sword_] These words do not occur in the Heb. in this v. but are supplied from Judges 7:20. Jehovah is the true leader of the Israelite host.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MIDDLE WATCH] i.e. when the night was about a third through: well before midnight.... [ Continue Reading ]
These places cannot be identified, but were probably in the Jordan valley, towards a point E. of Shechem.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Judges 6:35. Probably those who had left Gideon before the surprise now hurry in pursuit of the flying foe. They did not, however, as it would seem, actually join Gideon (Judges 8:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHRAIM] the leading tribe has not yet been mentioned. BETH-BARAH] not certainly identified; probably a tributary of the Jordan, the Wady Farah, which the Ephraimites would be able to reach before the fugitives. The latter—thus prevented from moving further southwards—would be enclosed between the t... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO PRINCES] RV 'the two princes.' OREB] 'Raven.' ZEEB] 'Wolf.' OTHER SIDE JORDAN] This is an anticipation of the next chapter (Judges 7:4).... [ Continue Reading ]