-
Judges 7:1 open_in_new
host. camp.
-
Judges 7:2 open_in_new
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. lest, &c. This is the real reason of this direction.
-
Judges 7:3 open_in_new
mount Gilead. What was more natural than that the half tribe of Manasseh on the west side of Jordan should so name. mount in their tribe in compliment to the famous mount on the east side? (Genesis 31:21-26; Genesis 37:25.Numbers 32:1; Numbers 32:40; Deuteronomy 3:15.Joshua 17:1; Joshua 17:1). Gideon was of that tribe. Probably "the wood of Ephraim", on east side; so named here out of compliment to the half tribe on west side (2 Samuel 18:6).
twenty. probably 20. 2,000. 2,020. Compare Judges 12:6; 1 Samuel 6:19. If there remained 10,000, there must have been 10,000. 2,020. 12,020; and, as only 300 remained, 9,700 must have gone away at the second testing. Only 1,000 of each tribe. 12,000, sent out to fight in Numbers 31:4; Numbers 31:5.
-
Judges 7:5 open_in_new
lappeth: i.e. without kneeling down as idolaters were accustomed to do (1Ki 19:18. 2 Chronicles 29:9. See note on Esther 3:2.
as. according as.
-
Judges 7:8 open_in_new
the People. So the 300 are called.
-
Judges 7:12 open_in_new
Amalekites. See note on Exodus 17:16.
children. sons.
grasshoppers. locusts.
as the sand, &c. Figure of speech Paroemia.
-
Judges 7:13 open_in_new
behold... Behold... lo. Figure of speech Asterismos (three times). App-6.
a dream. See note on Genesis 20:3.
-
Judges 7:14 open_in_new
God. ha-'Elohim here (= the God), because in connection with Midianites, His creatures. Not Jehovah, App-4.
-
Judges 7:16 open_in_new
lamps. torches, which smoulder till waved in the air.
-
Judges 7:18 open_in_new
The sword. These words are supplied by Figure of speech Ellipsis from Judges 7:20. But some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read these words in the text. Literally "For Jehovah and for Gideon".
-
Judges 7:24 open_in_new
mount. hill country.
-
Judges 7:25 open_in_new
two princes. Compare Psalms 83:11.Isaiah 10:26.