Exodus 4:2
a rod.17,20; Ge 30:37; Le 27:32; Ps 110:2; Isa 11:4; Mic 7:14Exodus 4:17
2; 7:9,19; 1Co 1:27Judges 7:9-20
the same.Ge 46:2,3; Job 4:13; 33:15,16; Mt 1:20; 2:13; Ac 18:9,10; 27:23Arise.Jos 1:5-9; Isa 41:10-16; 43:1,2I have delivered.3:10,28; 4:14,15; 2Ch 16:8,9; 20:17 4:8,9; Ex 4:10-14 thou shalt.13-15; Ge 24:14; 1Sa 14:8,12thine hands.1Sa 23:16; Ezr 6:22; Ne 6:9; Isa 35:3,4; 2Co 12:9,10; Eph 3:16Eph 6:10; Php 4:13armed men. or, ranks by five.Ex 13:18; *marg: the Midianites.6:3,5,33; 1Ki 4:30grasshoppers.8:10; 2Ch 14:9-12; Ps 3:1; 33:16; 118:10-12; Isa 8:9,10 lo, a cake.3:15,31; 4:9,21; 6:15; Isa 41:14,15; 1Co 1:27 his fellow.Nu 22:38; 23:5,20; 24:10-13; Job 1:10into his hand.Ex 15:14,15; Jos 2:9,24; 5:1; 2Ki 7:6,7 interpretation thereof. Heb. breaking thereof.Ge 40:8; 41:11worshipped.Ge 24:26,27,48; Ex 4:30,31; 2Ch 20:18,19Arise.4:14; 2Co 10:4-6 three companies.This small number of men, thus divided, would be able to encompass the whole camp of the Midianites. Concealing the lamps in the pitchers, they would pass unobserved to their appointed stations; then, in the dead of the night, when most of the enemy were fast asleep, all at once breaking their pitchers one against another, with as much noise as they could, and blowing the trumpets and shouting; they would occasion an exceedingly great alarm. The obedience of faith alone could have induced such an expedient, which no doubt God directed Gideon to employ.--Scott. a trumpet. Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them. empty.2Co 4:7lamps. or, fire-brands, or torches. 9:48; Mt 16:24; 1Co 11:1; Heb 13:7; 1Pe 5:3 blow ye.20the sword.The word {cherev,} "sword," necessarily implied, and rightly supplied by our venerable translators from ver. 20, is found in this place, in the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, and in eight MSS.; and evidently appears to be genuine. 1Sa 17:47; 2Ch 20:15-17 in the beginning.Ex 14:24; Mt 25:6; 1Th 5:2; Re 16:15they blew.8brake.16; Ps 2:9; Jer 13:13,14; 19:1-11 blew.How astonishing and overwhelming must the effect be, in a dark night, of the sudden glare of 300 torches, darting their splendour in the same instant on the half-awakened eyes of the terrified Midianites; accompanied with the clangor of 300 trumpets, alternately mingled with the thundering shout of {cherav yehovah oolegidon,} "The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon!" Nu 10:1-10; Jos 6:4,16,20; Isa 27:13; 1Co 15:52; 1Th 4:16brake.2Co 4:7; Heb 11:4; 2Pe 1:152 Samuel 5:24
sound.2Ki 7:6thou shalt bestir.Jud 4:14; 7:15; 1Sa 14:9-12; 1Ch 14:15; Php 2:11,121 Corinthians 1:18
the preaching.23,24; 2:2; Ga 6:12-14to.Ac 13:41; 2Co 2:15,16; 4:3; 2Th 2:10foolishness.21,23,25; 2:14; 3:19; Ac 17:18,32unto.24; 15:2; Ps 110:2,3; Ro 1:16; 2Co 10:4; 1Th 1:5; Heb 4:12
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