Judg 7:13-23, 15:14-16, 1Sa 17:45-50, Psa 110:2, 2Cor 3:5, 4:7, 13:3-4 | TSK | STEP

Judges 7:13-23

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 1:10

into his hand.

Ex 15:14,15; Jos 2:9,24; 5:1; 2Ki 7:6,7

interpretation thereof. Heb. breaking thereof.

Ge 40:8; 41:11

worshipped.

Ge 24:26,27,48; Ex 4:30,31; 2Ch 20:18,19

Arise.

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 4:7

lamps. or, fire-brands, or torches.

9:48; Mt 16:24; 1Co 11:1; Heb 13:7; 1Pe 5:3

blow ye.

the 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 16:15

they blew.

brake.

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 4:16

brake.

2Co 4:7; Heb 11:4; 2Pe 1:15

stood.

Ex 14:13,14; 2Ch 20:17; Isa 30:7,15

all the host.

Ex 14:25; 2Ki 7:6,7; Job 15:21,22; Pr 28:1

blew.

Jos 6:4,16,20; 2Co 4:7

the Lord.

1Sa 14:16-20; 2Ch 20:23; Ps 83:9; Isa 9:4; 19:2

in. or, toward. Zererath.Probably the same as Zartanah.

1Ki 4:12

border. Heb. lip. Abelmeholah.Situated, according to Eusebius 16 miles south from Scythopolis, or Bethshan.

1Ki 4:12; 19:16

Tabbath.Probably the town of [Oébéd,] mentioned by Eusebius, 13 miles from Neapolis, or Shechem, towards Scythopolis.

6:35; 1Sa 14:21,22

Judges 15:14-16

the Philistines.

5:30; 16:24; Ex 14:3,5; 1Sa 4:5; Job 20:5; Mic 7:8

the Spirit.

3:10; 14:6,19; Zec 4:6

the cords.

16:9,12; 1Sa 17:35; Ps 18:34; 118:11; Php 4:3

loosed. Heb. were melted.

new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew.

3:31; 4:21; 7:16; Le 26:8; Jos 23:10; 1Sa 14:6,14; 17:49,50

1Co 1:27,28

a thousand.Some would render the words {aileph ish,} "a chief;" but it is {alluph,} and not {aileph,} which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be {ish alluph,} "a man, a chief," and not {alluph ish,} "a chief, a man." Add to which, that every version renders it "a thousand men."

with the jaw-bone.There is here a fine paronomasia upon the word {chamor,} "an ass," which also signifies "a heap;" {bilchee hachamor, chamor chamorathayim,} "With the jaw-bone of an ass, a heap upon two heaps."

heaps upon heaps. Heb. an heap, two heaps.

1 Samuel 17:45-50

Thou comest.

Ps 44:6

in the name.

2Sa 22:33-35; 2Ch 32:8; Ps 3:8; 18:2; 20:5-7; 118:10,11; 124:8

Ps 125:1; Pr 18:10; 2Co 3:5; 10:4; Php 4:13; Heb 11:33,34

defied.

10,26,36; Isa 37:23,28

will the Lord.

De 7:2,23; 9:2,3; Jos 10:8

deliver thee. Heb. shut thee up.

Ps 31:8

take thine.

carcases.

44; De 28:26; Isa 56:9; Mt 24:28; Re 19:17,18

all the earth.

Ex 9:16; 15:14,15; Jos 4:24; 1Ki 8:43; 18:36,37; 2Ki 19:19

Ps 46:10; Isa 52:10; Da 2:47; 3:29; 6:26,27

saveth not.

Ps 33:16,17; 44:6,7; Pr 21:30,31; Ho 1:7

the battle.

14:6; 2Ch 20:15-17; Ps 46:11; Isa 9:7; Zec 4:6; Ro 8:31,37

David hasted.

Ps 27:1; Pr 28:1

smote.

1Ki 22:34; 2Ki 9:24; 1Co 1:27,28

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; 15:15

but there was.

39; 13:22