Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Judges 8:34
Verse Judges 8:34. Remembered not the Lord their God] They attributed their deliverance to some other cause, and did not give him the glory of their salvation.
Verse Judges 8:34. Remembered not the Lord their God] They attributed their deliverance to some other cause, and did not give him the glory of their salvation.
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...
GIDEON REFUSES A KINGDOM, AND ERECTS AN EPHOD. Long before the Israelites had any human kings. Yahweh was regarded as their Divine King, and Gideon, like Samuel (1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 10:19; 1 Samuel...
_Israel Turns from God Judges 8:33-35_ 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. 34...
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...
REMEMBERED NOT THE LORD THEIR GOD. — According to Judges 9:46, they looked on Baal as their _Elohim,_ and forgot that Jehovah was the one God. There was always this tendency to syncretism, as a half-w...
וְ לֹ֤א זָֽכְרוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת ־יְ
ABIMELECH AND JOTHAM Judges 8:29; Judges 9:1 THE history we are tracing moves from man to man; the personal influence of the hero is everything while it lasts and confusion follows on his death. Gide...
“THROUGH SLAUGHTER TO A THRONE” Judges 8:29; Judges 9:1 The Children of Israel were guilty of great fickleness and instability. They soon relapsed into Baal worship and forgot to show kindness to the...
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...
Observe how they forgot God, and how should they be grateful to man! How beautifully doth the Psalmist introduce to view, the wonderful goodness of God, when from the very sins of his people, the Lord...
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 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REMEMBERED NOT THE LORD THEIR GOD,.... Or, as the Targum, the worship of the Lord their God; they forgot him, and forsook him, which showed base ingratitude: WHO HAD DELIVE...
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: Ver. 34. _Remembered not the Lord._] Their _idolamania_ had o...
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...
And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord, their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side;...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE CAMPAIGN...
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...
29-35 As soon as Gideon was dead, who kept the people to the worship of the God of Israel, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went after Baalim, and showed no kindness to the family...
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Judges 8:34 children H1121 Israel H3478 remember H2142 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 delivered H5337 (H8688) hands...
‘ And the children of Israel did not remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side, nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely...
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...
_And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house._ GIDEON AT HIS WORST Man is a strange mixture of greatness and of littleness, of goodness, and of badness. The one lies very close to...
_Rule thou over us _. .. _ for thou hast delivered us._ GIDEON’S AFTER-LIFE Many a man does well in times of difficulty and danger who fails entirely in prosperity. It remains for us to see whether G...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 8:33 The steady downward cycle of Israel’s unfaithfulness continued. Though he had accomplished some good things, Gideon contributed significantly to this downward slide. WHORED....
CHAPTER 8 _FINAL DEALING WITH THE ENEMY—GIDEON’S LAST DAYS. Judges 8:18_ CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 8:18. THEN SAID HE, etc.] This must have taken place when Gideon arrived at home; for it was after his...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 8:22, JUDGES 8:23 RULE THOU, etc. The gratitude of Israel to their great deliverer, added to a sense that it would be for their own security, and to a desire, already perhaps beginn...
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...
Ecclesiastes 12:1; Jeremiah 2:32; Psalms 106:18; Psalms 106:21;...