Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Ver. 38. Art not thou that Egyptian?] Of whom read Joseph. ii. 10, de Belle Jud., and Antiq. xx.
That were murderers] Assassins, cut-throats. These were of the faction of Judas Gaulonites or Galileus. See Luke 13:1. (Godw. Heb. Antiq.)