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.