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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 7:21-22

Judges 7:21-22. They stood As if they had been torch-bearers to the several companies. Every man’s sword against his fellow They slew one another, because they suspected treachery, and so fell upon those they first met with; which they might more easily do, because they consisted of several nations, because the darkness of the night made them unable to distinguish friends from foes, because the suddenness of the thing struck them with horror and amazement, and because God had infatuated... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 7:23-24

Judges 7:23-24. The men of Israel gathered themselves together Upon advice of this flight of the Midianites, by swift messengers sent on purpose, the Israelites immediately poured down from all parts, to intercept them in their flight. Take before them the waters That is, the passes over those waters to which they are likely to come; unto Beth-barah and Jordan The fords of Jordan, which they must pass over into their own country. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 7:25

Judges 7:25. To Gideon on the other side of Jordan For Gideon, in the pursuit, had passed over Jordan. Oreb and Zeeb had probably taken shelter, the one in a rock, the other by a wine-press. But the places of their shelter were made the places of their slaughter, and the memory of it preserved in the names of the places. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 7:1-25

Deliverance under Gideon (7:1-8:35)God allowed Gideon only three hundred men to launch the attack against the Midianites, so that Israel might know that victory was not by military power but by God’s power (7:1-8). A Midianite soldier’s dream showed that an unnatural fear had come upon the Midianites. When he dreamt that a poor man’s loaf of barley overthrew a rich man’s tent, he thought that poverty-stricken Israel would overthrow Midian’s army. The Midianites could, in fact, have wiped out... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 7:24

mount = hill country. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 7:25

two princes. Compare Psalms 83:11 .Isaiah 10:26 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Judges 7:19

THE ATTACK"So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Judges 7:24

THE PURSUIT AND SLAUGHTER OF THE MIDIANITES"And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 7:21

Judges 7:21. They stood every man in his place round about the camp— Not one of the three hundred men stirred a foot from his place, but stood still without striking a blow, as if they had been only torch-bearers to give light to the army to see their way to the camp, and to do execution. The work was the Lord's; the stratagem had been in vain without his concurrence. He can make the meanest and most unlikely instruments subservient to the welfare of his people, and productive of the desolation... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 7:24

Judges 7:24. And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim— He was desirous, as Bishop Patrick observes, that others should have some share with him in finishing this work, though he alone, with some few, began it, and was exposed to all the danger. "Would to God," says Peter Martyr on this occasion, "that we were of this spirit in the church of Christ! that when any noble work is begun, we would call in all to help to perfect it! but Gideons are rare; and it is but too common to see... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 7:21-22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 7:23-24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 7:25

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 7:1-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 7:24

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 7:25

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Judges 7:19

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Judges 7:24

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 7:21

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 7:24

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