Judg 7:19-25, 8:4-10, 15:14-20, 16:19-30, 2Ki 20:7-11, Job 42:10 | TSK | STEP

Judges 7:19-25

in the beginning.

they blew.

brake.

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

sent.

3:27; Ro 15:30; Php 1:27

take before.

3:28; 12:5

Beth-barah.Probably the same as Betha-bara, beyond Jordan, and at the ford where the Hebrews passed under the direction of Joshua.

Joh 1:28

two princes.

8:3; Ps 83:11,12

rock.

Jos 7:26; Isa 10:26

Oreb.Eusebius and Jerome speak of a small place called Araba, three miles west from Scythopolis, which is supposed by some to have had its name from Oreb.

and brought.Among ancient nations, the head of the conquered chief was usually brought to the conqueror. Thus Pompey's head was brought to Cæsar, Cicero's head to Mark Anthony, and the heads of Ahab's children to Jehu. These barbarities are seldom practised now, except among the Mahommedans, or the savages of Africa and America; and for the credit of human nature, it is to be wished that such atrocities had never been committed.

on the other side.The words {maiaiver lyyarden,} may denote at the passage of Jordan, or from beyond Jordan. Gideon does not appear to have yet passed the Jordan.

8:4

Judges 8:4-10

faint.

1Sa 14:28,29,31,32; 30:10; 2Co 4:8,9,16; Ga 6:9; Heb 12:1-4

Succoth.

Ge 33:17; Ps 60:6

loaves.

Ge 14:18; De 23:4; 1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 17:28,29; 3Jo 1:6-8

5:23; Ge 25:13; 37:25,28; 1Sa 25:10,11; 1Ki 20:11; 2Ki 14:9

Pr 18:23; Php 2:21

tear. Heb. thresh.

Ge 32:30,31; 1Ki 12:25

I come.

1Ki 22:27,28

I will break.

Karkor.If this were the name of a place, it is no where else mentioned. Some contend that {karkor} signifies rest; and the Vulgate renders it {requiescebant,} "rested". This seems the most likely; for it is said (ver. 11) that Gideon "smote the host: for the host was secure."

children.

7:12

fell an hundred, etc. or, an hundred and twenty thousand,every one drawing a sword

7:22; 20:2,15,17,25,35,46; 2Ki 3:26; 2Ch 13:17; 28:6,8; Isa 37:36

Judges 15:14-20

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.

Ramath-lehi. that is, the lifting up of the jaw-bone, or,the casting away of the jaw-bone.

he was sore.

8:4; Ps 22:14,15; Joh 19:28; 2Co 4:8,9

Thou hast given.

Ps 3:7,8; 18:31-40

shall.

Ge 32:31; 2Co 12:7,8

and fall.

Ge 12:12,13; 20:11; 1Sa 27:1; 2Co 1:8,9; Heb 11:32

the uncircumcised.

1Sa 17:26,36; 2Sa 1:20

the jaw. or, Lehi.This reading is certainly preferable: it was in the place called Lehi where a spring was supernaturally opened.

there came.

Isa 44:3

his spirit.

Ge 45:27; 1Sa 30:12; Isa 40:26

En-hakkore.Samson gave this expressive name to the miraculously springing water, to be as a memorial of the goodness of God to him. En-hakkore, the well of him that cried, which kept him in remembrance both of his own distress which caused him to cry, and the favour of Jehovah to him in answer to his cry. Many a spring of comfort God opens to his people, which may fitly be called by the name En-hakkore: and this instance of Samson's relief should encourage us to trust in God, for when he pleases he can open rivers in high places.

Isa 41:17,18Samson at first gave the name of Ramath-lehi (the lifting up of the jaw-bone) which denoted him great and triumphant: but now he gives it another name, En-hakkore, which denotes him wanting and dependent.

Ge 16:13, 22:14; 28:19; 30:30; Ex 17:15; Ps 34:6; 120:1

13:1,5; 16:31"He seems to have judged South-west Israel during twenty years of their servitude of the Philistines."

Judges 16:19-30

she made.

Pr 7:21-23,26,27; 23:33,34; Ec 7:26

I will go.

3,9,14; De 32:30; Isa 42:24; Ho 7:9

the Lord.

Nu 14:9,42,43; Jos 7:12; 1Sa 16:14; 18:12; 28:14-16; 2Ch 15:2

Isa 59:1,2; Jer 9:23,24; Mt 17:16,20; 2Co 3:5

and put out. Heb. and bored out.

Pr 5:22; 14:14; 2:19

bound him.

2Ki 25:7; 2Ch 33:11; Ps 107:10-12; 149:8

grind.

Ex 11:5; Isa 47:2; Mt 24:41

the hair.

Le 26:44; De 32:36; Ps 106:44,45; 107:13,14

after he was shaven. or, as when he was shaven.

Dagon.

1Sa 5:2-5; Jer 2:11; Mic 4:5; Ro 1:23-25; 1Co 8:4,5; 10:20

to rejoice.

Job 30:9,10; Ps 35:15,16; Pr 24:17

praised.

De 32:27; Isa 37:20; Eze 20:14; Da 5:4,23; Hab 1:16; Re 11:10

which slew many of us. Heb. and who multiplied our slain.

15:8,16

their hearts.

9:27; 18:20; 19:6,9; 2Sa 13:28; 1Ki 20:12; Es 3:15; Isa 22:13

Da 5:2,3; Mt 14:6,7

them. Heb. before them. sport.

Job 30:9,10; Ps 35:15,16; 69:12,26; Pr 24:17,18; Mic 7:8-10

Mt 26:67,68; 27:29,39-44; Heb 11:36

and there."Samson, therefore," says Dr. Shaw, "must have been in a court or area below; and consequently the temple will be of the same kind with the ancient, [temene,] or sacred enclosures, which were only surrounded either in part, or on all sides, with some plain or cloistered buildings. Several palaces, {doutwanas,} (as the courts of justice are called in those countries) are built in this fashion. On their public festivals and rejoicings, the roofs of these cloisters are crowded with spectators. I have often seen numbers of people diverted in this manner on the roof of the dey's palace at Algiers; which, like many others, has an advanced cloister, over against the gate of the palace, like a long pent-house, supported by one or two contiguous pillars in front, or centre."

the roof.

9:51; De 22:8; Jos 2:8; 2Sa 11:2

called.

2Ch 20:12; Ps 50:15; 91:15; 116:4; La 3:31,32; Heb 11:32

remember me.

Ps 74:18-23; Jon 2:1,2,7; Jer 15:15

that I may.

5:31; Ps 58:10,11; 143:12; 2Ti 4:14; Re 6:10

on which it was borne up. or, he leaned on them.

me. Heb. my soul. die.

Mt 16:25; Ac 20:24; 21:13; Php 2:17,30; Heb 12:1-4

and the house.

Job 20:5; 31:3; Ps 62:3; Ec 9:12; Mt 24:38,39; 1Th 5:2

So the dead.

14:19; 15:8,15; Ge 3:15; Php 2:8; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14,15

2 Kings 20:7-11

Take a lump.

2:20-22; 4:41; Isa 38:21

the boil.The word {shechin,} from the Arabic {sachana,} to be hot, signifies an inflammatory tumour, or burning boil; and some think that Hezekiah's malady was a pleurisy; others, that it was the plague; and others, the elephantiasis, a species of leprosy, as one of the Hexapla versions renders in Job 2:7. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man; for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could not have been effected.

What shall be.

5; 19:29; Jud 6:17,37-40; Isa 7:11,14; 38:22; Ho 6:2

This sign.

Isa 38:7,8; Mt 16:1-4; Mr 8:11,12; Lu 11:29,30

2:10; 3:18; Isa 49:6; Mr 9:28,29; Joh 14:12

cried unto.

Ex 14:15; 1Ki 17:20,21; 18:36-38; Ac 9:40

he brought.

Jos 10:12-14; 2Ch 32:24,31; Isa 38:8

dial. Heb. degrees.