Genesis 14:14-16
his brother.11:27-31; 13:8; Pr 17:17; 24:11,12; Ga 6:1,2; 1Jo 2:18armed. or, led forth.Ps 45:3-5; 68:12; Isa 41:2,3trained. or, instructed. born.12:5,16; 15:3; 17:12,27; 18:19; 23:6; Ec 2:7Dan.De 34:1; Jud 18:29; 20:1 And he.Ps 112:5smote.Isa 41:2,3Damascus.De 15:2; 1Ki 15:18; Ac 9:2 11,12; 12:2; 1Sa 30:8,18,19; Isa 41:2 Judges 7:16-20
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 1:15 1 Samuel 17:50
So David prevailed.The tradition of the combat between David and Goliath, in which the latter was killed, is preserved among the Arabs; for he is mentioned in the Koran, where he is called Galut or Jalut. The Arabs also call the dynasty of the Philistine kings, who reigned in Palestine when the Hebrews came there, Galutiah, or Jalutiah. Achmed Al Fassi says, "Those kings were as well known by the name of Jalaut, as the ancient kings of Egypt by that of Pharaoh. David killed the Jalaut who reigned in his time, and entirely rooted out the Philistines, the rest of whom fled into Africa, and from them descended the Brebers or Berbers, who inhabit the coast of Barbary." It is remarkable that the Berbers themselves should acknowledge their descent from the Philistines. "The name Goliath, which they pronounce Sghiàlud, is very common among the Brebers, and the history of the champion of the Philistines is very well known to the Moors. When children quarrel, and the bigger one challenges the smaller to fight the latter answers, 'Who will fight with you? {Enta men ulid Sgiàlud.} You are of the race of Golaith.' The Jews who dwell among them, on the mountains, all call them Philistines." 21:9; 23:21; Jud 3:31; 15:15but there was.39; 13:22 1 Corinthians 1:27-29
Ps 8:2; Isa 26:5,6; 29:14,19; Zep 3:12; Mt 4:18-22; 9:9; 11:25Mt 21:16; Lu 19:39,40; 21:15; Ac 4:11-21; 6:9,10; 7:35,54; 17:18Ac 24:24,25; 2Co 4:7; 10:4,5,10 things which.Ro 4:17; 2Co 12:11to bring.2:6; De 28:63; Job 34:19,20,24; Ps 32:10; 37:35,36; Isa 2:11,17Isa 17:13,14; 37:36; 41:12; Da 2:34,35,44,45; Re 18:17 31; 4:7; 5:6; Ps 49:6; Isa 10:15; Jer 9:23; Ro 3:19,27; 4:2; 15:17Eph 2:9
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