Gen 37:23-28, Judg 1:7, Pro 21:13, 24:11-12, 28:17, Jer 2:17, 19, 4:18 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 37:23-28

stript.

3,31-33; 42:21; Ps 22:18; Mt 27:28

colours. or, pieces.

and cast.

Ps 35:7; La 4:20

the pit.

Ps 40:2; 88:6,8; 130:1,2; Jer 38:6; La 3:52-55; Zec 9:11

they sat.

Es 3:15; Ps 14:4; Pr 30:20; Am 6:6

Ishmeelites.

28,36; 16:11,12; 25:1-4,16-18; 31:23; Ps 83:6

Gilead.

31:21; 43:11; Jer 8:22

spicery.{Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance.

balm{Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin.

myrrh.{Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and Latin {ladanum}.

What profit.

25:32; Ps 30:9; Jer 41:8; Mt 16:26; Ro 6:21

conceal.

20; 4:10; De 17:8; 2Sa 1:16; Job 16:18; Eze 24:7

sell him.

22; Ex 21:16,21; Ne 5:8; Mt 16:26; 26:15; 1Ti 1:10; Re 18:13

let not.

1Sa 18:17; 2Sa 11:14-17; 12:9

he is our.

29:14; 42:21

were content. Heb. hearkened.

Midianites.

25; 25:2; Ex 2:16; Nu 25:15,17; 31:2,3,8,9; Jud 6:1-3; Ps 83:9

Isa 60:6

sold.

45:4,5; Ps 105:17; Zec 11:12,13; Mt 26:15; 27:9; Ac 7:9

Judges 1:7

their thumbs. Heb. the thumbs of their hands and of theirfeet. This was not an unusual act of cruelty in ancient times towards enemies.--Ælian informs us, that in after ages "the Athenians, at the instigation of Cleon, son of Cleoenetus, made a decree that all the inhabitants of the island of Ægina should have the thumb cut off from the right hand, so that they might ever after be disabled from holding a spear, yet might handle an oar." It was a custom among those Romans who did not like a military life, to cut off their thumbs, that they might be incapable of serving in the army; and for the same reason, parents sometimes cut off the thumbs of their children.

gathered. or, gleaned. as I have.

Ex 21:23-25; Le 24:19-21; 1Sa 15:33; Isa 33:1; Mt 7:1,2

Lu 6:37,38; Ro 2:15; Jas 2:13; Re 13:10; 16:6