Leviticus 26:8

Nu 14:9; De 28:7; 32:30; Jos 23:10; Jud 7:19-21; 1Sa 14:6-16

1Sa 17:45-52; 1Ch 11:11,20; Ps 81:14,15

Joshua 23:10

One man.

Le 26:8; De 32:30; Jud 3:31; 7:19-22; 15:15; 1Sa 14:6,12-16

2Sa 23:8

Lord.

10:42; Ex 14:14; 23:27-33; De 3:22; 20:4; Ps 35:1; 44:4,5; 46:7

Ro 8:31

Judges 3:31

Shamgar.

5:6,8

an ox goad.This implement, Mr. Maundrell informs us, in Palestine and Syria is of an extraordinary size. He measured several, and "found them about eight feet long; and at the bigger end about six inches in circumference. They were armed at the lesser end with a sharp prickle for driving the oxen; and at the other end with a small paddle of iron, strong and massive, for cleansing the plough from the clay. In the hand of a powerful man such an instrument must be more dangerous and fatal than a sword."

15:15; 1Sa 13:19-22; 17:47,50; 1Co 1:17

also.

2:16

Israel."So part is called Israel."

4:1,3-24; 10:7,17; 11:4-33; 1Sa 4:1"It seems to concern only the country next to the Philistines."

Judges 4:21

took.

3:21,31; 5:26; 15:15; 1Sa 17:43,49,50; 1Co 1:19,27

a nail.One of the spikes of the tent. See Note on Ex 35:18.

and took. Heb. and put. smote.

Ps 3:7

he died.

5:27

Judges 7:16

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 4:7

lamps. or, fire-brands, or torches.

1 Samuel 14:6

Come.This action of Jonathan's was totally contrary to the laws of war; no military operation should be undertaken without the knowledge and command of the general. But it is highly probable, that this gallant man was led to undertake the hazardous enterprise by an immediate divine impulse; and by the same influence was kept from informing the soldiers, and even from consulting his father, who might have opposed his design.

uncircumcised.

17:26,36; Ge 17:7-11; Jud 15:18; 2Sa 1:20; Jer 9:23,26

Eph 2:11,12; Php 3:3

it may be.

2Sa 16:12; 2Ki 19:4; Am 5:15; Zep 2:3

for there is no restraint.Where there is a promise of defense and support, the weakest, in the face of the strongest enemy, may rely upon it with the utmost confidence.

De 32:30; Jud 7:4-7; 2Ch 14:11; Ps 115:1-3; Zec 4:6; Mt 19:26

Ro 8:31

1 Samuel 14:14

an half acre of land. or, half a furrow of an acre of land.The original is obscure and variously understood; but it is probably a proverbial expression for a small space.

14

1 Samuel 17:49-50

smote.

1Ki 22:34; 2Ki 9:24; 1Co 1:27,28

So David prevailed.The tradition of the combat between David and Goliath, in which the latter was killed, is preserved among the Arabs; for he is mentioned in the Koran, where he is called Galut or Jalut. The Arabs also call the dynasty of the Philistine kings, who reigned in Palestine when the Hebrews came there, Galutiah, or Jalutiah. Achmed Al Fassi says, "Those kings were as well known by the name of Jalaut, as the ancient kings of Egypt by that of Pharaoh. David killed the Jalaut who reigned in his time, and entirely rooted out the Philistines, the rest of whom fled into Africa, and from them descended the Brebers or Berbers, who inhabit the coast of Barbary." It is remarkable that the Berbers themselves should acknowledge their descent from the Philistines. "The name Goliath, which they pronounce Sghiàlud, is very common among the Brebers, and the history of the champion of the Philistines is very well known to the Moors. When children quarrel, and the bigger one challenges the smaller to fight the latter answers, 'Who will fight with you? {Enta men ulid Sgiàlud.} You are of the race of Golaith.' The Jews who dwell among them, on the mountains, all call them Philistines."

21:9; 23:21; Jud 3:31; 15:15

but there was.

39; 13:22
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