Jos 8:4, Judg 20:34, 2Sa 5:23 | TSK | STEP

Joshua 8:4

lie in wait.

16; Jud 9:25; 20:29,33,36; 1Sa 15:2,5; Ac 23:21

go not.

Ec 7:19; 9:16

Judges 20:34

ten thousand.

knew not.

Jos 8:14; Job 21:13; Pr 4:19; 29:6; Ec 8:11,12; 9:12; Isa 3:10,11

Isa 47:11; Mt 24:44; Lu 21:34; 21:34; 1Th 5:3

2 Samuel 5:23

enquired.

fetch.

Jos 8:2,7; 1Ch 14:14; Mt 9:29,30; 8:23-25; Joh 9:6,7

the mulberry trees.The word {bechaïm,} rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, [apion,] pear-trees, as the LXX. also render in 1 Ch 14:14, 15; and so the Vulgate in both places has {pyrorum.} The Rabbins, however, believe {bacha} signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call {baca,} from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from {bachah} to distil, as tears. Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste. M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of {bæca,} with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entire: its berries are poisonous to the sheep.