Exodus 1:14
their lives.2:23; 6:9; Ge 15:13; Nu 20:15; De 4:20; 26:6; Ru 1:20; Ac 7:19,34in mortar.Ps 68:13; 81:6; Na 3:14was with rigour.13; 5:7-21; 20:2; Le 25:43,46,53; Isa 14:6; 51:23; 52:5; 58:6Jer 50:33,34; Mic 3:3Joshua 9:23
cursed.This may refer to the original curse pronounced against the descendants of Canaan: both of them seem to have implied nothing else than perpetual slavery. The Gibeonites were brought, no doubt, under tribute; performed the meanest offices for the Israelites; being in the same condition as the servile class of Hindoos, called the {Chetrees;} had their national importance annihilated, and yet were never permitted to incorporate themselves with the Israelites. See onGe 9:25,26; Le 27:28,29none of you be freed. Heb. not be cut off from you. hewers.In the East, collecting wood for fuel, and carrying water, are the peculiar employment of females. The Arab women of Barbary, and the daughters of the Turcomans, are thus employed. Hence Mr. Harmer concludes, that the bitterness of the doom of the Gibeonites does not seem to have consisted in the labouriousness of the service enjoined them, but its disgracing them from the characteristic employment of men, that of bearing arms, and condemning them and their posterity for ever to the employment of females. 21,27Judges 8:6-7
5:23; Ge 25:13; 37:25,28; 1Sa 25:10,11; 1Ki 20:11; 2Ki 14:9Pr 18:23; Php 2:21 tear. Heb. thresh.16Judges 8:16-17
the elders.7; Pr 10:13; 19:29; Ezr 2:6thorns.Mic 7:4taught. 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 12:251 Kings 9:21
left.Jud 1:21,27-35; 2:20-23; 3:1-4; Ps 106:34-36not.Jos 15:63; 17:12,16-18levy.15; 5:13; Jud 1:28,35tribute.He made them do the most laborious parts of the public works, the Israelites being exempt from all but the more honourable employments. bond-service.Ge 9:25,26; Ezr 2:55-58; Ne 7:57; 11:3
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