Judges 7:8
trumpets.3:27; Le 23:24; 25:9; Nu 10:9; Jos 6:4,20; Isa 27:13; 1Co 15:52in the valley.6:33Judges 7:18-22
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 stood.Ex 14:13,14; 2Ch 20:17; Isa 30:7,15all the host.Ex 14:25; 2Ki 7:6,7; Job 15:21,22; Pr 28:1 blew.Jos 6:4,16,20; 2Co 4:7the Lord.1Sa 14:16-20; 2Ch 20:23; Ps 83:9; Isa 9:4; 19:2in. or, toward. Zererath.Probably the same as Zartanah. 1Ki 4:12border. Heb. lip. Abelmeholah.Situated, according to Eusebius 16 miles south from Scythopolis, or Bethshan. 1Ki 4:12; 19:16Tabbath.Probably the town of [Oébéd,] mentioned by Eusebius, 13 miles from Neapolis, or Shechem, towards Scythopolis.2 Kings 9:13
and took every.The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of Æschylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way. Mt 21:7,8; Mr 11:7,8on the top.The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city. blew with trumpets.2Sa 15:10; 1Ki 1:34,39; Ps 47:5-7; 98:6is king. Heb. reigneth.
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