Judges 2:18
then the Lord.Ex 3:12; Jos 1:5; Ac 18:9,10it repented.10:16; Ge 6:6; De 32:36; Ps 90:13; 106:44,45; Jer 18:7-10Ho 11:8; Jon 3:10their groanings.Ex 2:24; 2Ki 13:4,22,23; Ps 12:5Judges 3:27
he blew.5:14; 6:34; 1Sa 13:3; 2Sa 20:22; 2Ki 9:13mountain.7:24; 17:1; 19:1; Jos 17:15,18Judges 4:2-3
sold.2:14,15; 10:7; Isa 50:1; Mt 18:25"It seems to concern only north Israel." Hazor.Jos 11:1,10,11; 19:36Sisera.1Sa 12:9; Ps 83:9Harosheth.13,16 cried.3:9,15; 10:16; 1Sa 7:8; Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27,28chariots.1:19; Jos 17:16mightily.5:8; De 28:29,33,47,48; Ps 106:42Judges 6:9
drave them.Ps 44:2,3Judges 6:34
the Spirit.3:10; 13:25; 14:19; 15:14; 1Sa 10:6; 11:6; 16:14; 1Ch 12:182Ch 24:20; Ps 51:11; 1Co 12:8-11came upon. Heb. clothed.Ro 13:14; Ga 3:27blew.3:27; Nu 10:3Abi-ezer.11; 8:2; Jos 17:2was gathered. Heb. was called.Judges 7:16-21
three companies.This small number of men, thus divided, would be able to encompass the whole camp of the Midianites. Concealing the lamps in the pitchers, they would pass unobserved to their appointed stations; then, in the dead of the night, when most of the enemy were fast asleep, all at once breaking their pitchers one against another, with as much noise as they could, and blowing the trumpets and shouting; they would occasion an exceedingly great alarm. The obedience of faith alone could have induced such an expedient, which no doubt God directed Gideon to employ.--Scott. a trumpet. Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them. empty.2Co 4:7lamps. or, fire-brands, or torches. 9:48; Mt 16:24; 1Co 11:1; Heb 13:7; 1Pe 5:3 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 28:1Judges 10:8
that year.5; Isa 30:13; 1Th 5:3oppressed. Heb. crushed.Judges 10:12
Zidonians.5:19-31Amalekites.6:3the Maonites.The LXX. have "the Midianites," which Dr. Wall thinks the true reading. But the Maonites might be a tribe of Arabs, inhabitants of Maon. (Jos 15:55. 1Sa 23:24, 25; 25:2,) which assisted Moab. 2Ch 26:6,7; Ps 106:42,431 Samuel 10:18
Thus saith.Jud 2:1; 6:8,9; Ne 9:9-12,27,28
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