Judg 8:12-21 | TSK | STEP | took. discomfited. Heb. terrified.

Judges 8:12-21

took.

Jos 10:16-18,22-25; Job 12:16-21; 34:19; Ps 83:11; Am 2:14

discomfited. Heb. terrified.

before.The words {milmäâleh haichaires} should, most probably be rendered "from the ascent of Chares;" which is the reading of the LXX. Syriac, Arabic, and Houbigant.

caught.

1:24,25; 1Sa 30:11-15

described. Heb. writ.

upbraid.

6,7

the elders.

7; Pr 10:13; 19:29; Ezr 2:6

thorns.

Mic 7:4

taught. Heb. made to know.Instead of {wyyodâ,} Houbigant, Le Clerc, and others read {wyyadosh,} "and he tore or threshed;" and this is not only agreeable to what Gideon threatened (ver. 7), but is supported by the LXX. Vulgate, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. The Hebrew text might easily have been corrupted simply by the change of [Shîyn,] {shin,} into ['Ayin,] {ayin,} letters very similar to each other.

9; 1Ki 12:25

Tabor.

4:6; Ps 89:12

As thou art.

Ps 12:2; Jude 1:16

resembled. Heb. according to the form of, etc.

Jos 10:24; 1Sa 15:33; Ps 149:9

Rise thou.It was disgraceful to fall by the hands of a child; and death by the blows of such a person must be much more lingering and tormenting. Some have employed children to dispatch captives.

9:54; 1Sa 31:3,5; Re 9:6

slew.

Ps 83:1

ornaments. or, ornaments like the moon.

Isa 3:18