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Selected Verse: Judges 7:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jud 7:9 |
Strong Concordance |
And it came to pass the same night [03915], that the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Arise [06965], get thee down [03381] unto the host [04264]; for I have delivered [05414] it into thine hand [03027]. |
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King James |
And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
HE IS ENCOURAGED BY THE DREAM AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE BARLEY CAKE. (Jdg 7:9-15)
Arise, get thee down unto the host . . . But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant--In ancient times it was reckoned no degradation for persons of the highest rank and character to act as spies on an enemy's camp; and so Gideon did on this occasion. But the secret errand was directed by God, who intended that he should hear something which might animate his own valor and that of his troops. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Gideon's Battle and Victory. - Jdg 7:9-11. The following night the Lord commanded Gideon to go down to the camp of the enemy, as He had given it into his hand (the perfect is used to denote the purpose of God which had already been formed, as in Jdg 4:14). But in order to fill him with confidence for such an enterprise, which to all human appearance was a very rash one, God added, "If thou art afraid to go down, go thou with thine attendant Purah down to the camp, and thou wilt hear what they say, and thy hands will thereby become strong." The meaning of the protasis is not, If thou art afraid to go down into the camp of the enemy alone, or to visit the enemy unarmed, take Purah thine armour-bearer with thee, to make sure that thou hast weapons to use (Bertheau); for, apart from the fact that the addition "unarmed" is perfectly arbitrary, the apodosis "thou wilt see," etc., by no means agrees with this explanation. The meaning is rather this: Go with thy 300 men into (בּ) the hostile camp to smite it, for I have given it into thy hand; but if thou art afraid to do this, go down with thine attendant to (אל) the camp, to ascertain the state and feeling of the foe, and thou wilt hear what they say, i.e., as we gather from what follows, how they are discouraged, have lost all hope of defeating you, and from that thou wilt gather courage and strength for the battle. On the expression "thine hands shall be strengthened," see Sa2 2:7. The expression which follows, בּמּחנה וירדתּ, is not a mere repetition of the command to go down with his attendant to the hostile camp, but describes the result of the stimulus given to his courage: And then thou wilt go fearlessly into the hostile camp to attack the foe. בּמּחנה ירד (Jdg 7:9, Jdg 7:11) is to be distinguished from המּחנה ירד in Jdg 7:10. The former signifies to go down into the camp to smite the foe; the latter, to go down to the camp to reconnoitre it, and is equivalent to the following clause: "he went to the outside of the camp." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The same night - After he had dismissed all but the three hundred. The Lord said - In a dream or vision of the night. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I have delivered it into thine hand - I have determined to do it, and it is as sure as if it were done. |
9 And it came to pass the same night [03915], that the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Arise [06965], get thee down [03381] unto the host [04264]; for I have delivered [05414] it into thine hand [03027].
10 But if thou fear [03373] to go down [03381], go [03381] thou with Phurah [06513] thy servant [05288] down [03381] to the host [04264]:
11 And thou shalt hear [08085] what they say [01696]; and afterward [0310] shall thine hands [03027] be strengthened [02388] to go down [03381] unto the host [04264]. Then went he down [03381] with Phurah [06513] his servant [05288] unto the outside [07097] of the armed men [02571] that were in the host [04264].
12 And the Midianites [04080] and the Amalekites [06002] and all the children [01121] of the east [06924] lay [05307] along in the valley [06010] like grasshoppers [0697] for multitude [07230]; and their camels [01581] were without number [04557], as the sand [02344] by the sea [03220] side [08193] for multitude [07230].
13 And when Gideon [01439] was come [0935], behold, there was a man [0376] that told [05608] a dream [02472] unto his fellow [07453], and said [0559], Behold, I dreamed [02492] a dream [02472], and, lo, a cake [06742] [06742] of barley [08184] bread [03899] tumbled [02015] into the host [04264] of Midian [04080], and came [0935] unto a tent [0168], and smote [05221] it that it fell [05307], and overturned [02015] [04605] it, that the tent [0168] lay along [05307].
14 And his fellow [07453] answered [06030] and said [0559], This is nothing else save the sword [02719] of Gideon [01439] the son [01121] of Joash [03101], a man [0376] of Israel [03478]: for into his hand [03027] hath God [0430] delivered [05414] Midian [04080], and all the host [04264].
15 And it was so, when Gideon [01439] heard [08085] the telling [04557] of the dream [02472], and the interpretation [07667] thereof, that he worshipped [07812], and returned [07725] into the host [04264] of Israel [03478], and said [0559], Arise [06965]; for the LORD [03068] hath delivered [05414] into your hand [03027] the host [04264] of Midian [04080].
10 But if thou fear [03373] to go down [03381], go [03381] thou with Phurah [06513] thy servant [05288] down [03381] to the host [04264]:
11 And thou shalt hear [08085] what they say [01696]; and afterward [0310] shall thine hands [03027] be strengthened [02388] to go down [03381] unto the host [04264]. Then went he down [03381] with Phurah [06513] his servant [05288] unto the outside [07097] of the armed men [02571] that were in the host [04264].
9 And it came to pass the same night [03915], that the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Arise [06965], get thee down [03381] unto the host [04264]; for I have delivered [05414] it into thine hand [03027].
7 Therefore now let your hands [03027] be strengthened [02388], and be ye valiant [01121] [02428]: for your master [0113] Saul [07586] is dead [04191], and also the house [01004] of Judah [03063] have anointed [04886] me king [04428] over them.
14 And Deborah [01683] said [0559] unto Barak [01301], Up [06965]; for this is the day [03117] in which the LORD [03068] hath delivered [05414] Sisera [05516] into thine hand [03027]: is not the LORD [03068] gone out [03318] before [06440] thee? So Barak [01301] went down [03381] from mount [02022] Tabor [08396], and ten [06235] thousand [0505] men [0376] after [0310] him.
9 And it came to pass the same night [03915], that the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Arise [06965], get thee down [03381] unto the host [04264]; for I have delivered [05414] it into thine hand [03027].
10 But if thou fear [03373] to go down [03381], go [03381] thou with Phurah [06513] thy servant [05288] down [03381] to the host [04264]:
11 And thou shalt hear [08085] what they say [01696]; and afterward [0310] shall thine hands [03027] be strengthened [02388] to go down [03381] unto the host [04264]. Then went he down [03381] with Phurah [06513] his servant [05288] unto the outside [07097] of the armed men [02571] that were in the host [04264].