Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Judges 8:14
Described] RM 'wrote down' a list of the chief men. The elders are heads of families; the princes (cp. Judges 8:6) are the military leaders.
Described] RM 'wrote down' a list of the chief men. The elders are heads of families; the princes (cp. Judges 8:6) are the military leaders.
Verse Judges 8:14. _HE DESCRIBED UNTO HIM THE PRINCES OF SUCCOTH_] The young man probably gave him the names of seventy persons, the chief men of Succoth, who were those who were most concerned in ref...
The written (see the margin) list would enable Gideon to punish the guilty and spare the innocent people. Succoth was governed by a sanhedrim or council of seventy elders (compare Numbers 11:16), with...
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 PURSUIT ON THE EAST OF JORDAN. This section is not continuous with the preceding one. The men of Israel, who were gathered together after the battle (Judges 7:23), and the Ephraimites, who were so...
_The pursuit on the east of Jordan_ This section is clearly not the continuation of the verses which immediately precede (see p. 68); if its antecedents are to be found in the foregoing narrative at...
_he described for him_ HE WROTE DOWN (and gave) UNTO HIM. The knowledge of writing must have been widely spread even at this early period. Cf. the similar incidents in Judges 1:24 f.; 1 Samuel 30:11-1...
_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?...
_AND CAUGHT A YOUNG MAN OF THE MEN OF SUCCOTH, AND INQUIRED OF HIM: AND HE DESCRIBED UNTO HIM THE PRINCES OF SUCCOTH, AND THE ELDERS THEREOF, EVEN THREESCORE AND SEVENTEEN MEN._ He described - wrote...
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...
CAUGHT A YOUNG MAN. — Comp. Judges 1:24. DESCRIBED. — Marg. _writ, i.e.:_ the boy wrote down their names (LXX., _apegrapsato;_ Vulg., _descripsit_). THREESCORE AND SEVENTEEN. — Perhaps a sort of loca...
וַ יִּלְכָּד ־נַ֛עַר מֵ אַנְשֵׁ֥י סֻכֹּ֖ות וַ
"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...
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...
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...
The men of Succoth, and of Penuel, were Israelites by descent, but sadly degenerated from the spirit of Israel. The Reader will recollect, however, that these things happened during the time of the co...
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...
AND CAUGHT A YOUNG MAN OF THE MEN OF SUCCOTH, AND INQUIRED OF HIM,.... Just before he came to the city, he spied a young man which belonged to it, and laid hold on him, and inquired of him about the c...
_And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, [even] threescore and seventeen men._ Ver. 14. _And he de...
_He described unto him_, &c. Hebrews יכתב, _jichtob_, he wrote down, probably the names and dwellings, and perhaps also the qualities of the great men of the city, and of the judges, who were the pers...
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 END OF ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA...
and caught a young man of the men, the inhabitants, OF SUCCOTH, AND ENQUIRED OF HIM, in order to find out certain facts about the city; AND HE DESCRIBED UNTO HIM THE PRINCES OF SUCCOTH AND THE ELDERS...
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...
DESCRIBED: _ Heb._ writ...
13-17 The active servants of the Lord meet with more dangerous opposition from false professors than from open enemies; but they must not care for the behaviour of those who are Israelites in name, b...
He told him their names and qualities....
Judges 8:14 caught H3920 (H8799) man H5288 men H582 Succoth H5523 interrogated H7592 (H8799) down H3789 ...
‘ And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him. And he wrote down for him the names of the princes of Succoth, and its elders, even seventy seven men.' Gideon would not kill 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...
_The princes of Succoth _. .. _ The men of Penuel._ PATIENCE UNDER PROVOCATION Instead of being supported, as they had good right to expect they would have been, by those who profess to be the Lord’s...
_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 8:13 BEFORE THE SUN WAS UP. There is a wonderful diversity in the renderings of this verse. Some of the old versions and Jewish Rabbis interpret it _before sunset. _Many of the best...
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...
1 Samuel 30:11; Judges 1:24; Judges 1:25...
He described — He told him their names and qualities....