Judges 9:17

For my father fought for you ,.... In the valley of Jezreel, and at Karkor, where with three hundred men he routed and destroyed an army of 135,000:

and adventured his life far : which, according to our version, may seem to have respect to his going over Jordan, and following the Midianites, fleeing into their country, and fighting them at Karkor, at a great distance from his native place; but the phrase in the original text is, "he cast away his life afar" F5 וישלך את נפשו מנגד "et projecit animam suam a louge", Pagninus; "vel eminus", Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. , made no account of it, exposed it to the greatest danger; or, as the Targum,"he delivered his life as it were to destruction:"

and delivered you out of the hand of Midian ; from the oppression and bondage of the Midianites, under which they had laboured seven years.