Juízes 8:10

10 Zebá e Zalmuna estavam em Carcor com o seu exército, cerca de quinze mil homens, os restantes de todo o exército dos filhos do oriente; pois haviam caído cento e vinte mil homens que puxavam da espada.

Juízes 8:10 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor.
&c.] Jerom ^F21 under this word says, there was in his time a castle called Carcuria, a day's journey from Petra, which was the metropolis of Idumea; but whether the same with this is not clear:

and their host with them, about fifteen thousand men;
to which number Gideon and his three hundred men were very unequal; and yet, faint and weary as they were, closely pursued them, attacked and conquered them. Josephus ^F23 very wrongly makes this number to be about 18,000:

all that were left of the hosts of the children of the east;
the Arabians, who with the Amalekites joined the Midianites in this expedition; and perhaps the remainder of the army chiefly consisted of Arabians, the others having mostly suffered in the valley of Jezreel, and at the fords of Jordan:

for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword;
besides infirm men, women, and children, which may reasonably be supposed; so that this host consisted of 135,000 fighting men.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 De loc. Heb. fol. 90. B.
F23 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 6. sect. 5.

Juízes 8:10 In-Context

8 Dali subiu a Penuel, e falou da mesma maneira aos homens desse lugar, que lhe responderam como os homens de Sucote lhe haviam respondido.

9 Por isso falou também aos homens de Penuel, dizendo: Quando eu voltar em paz, derribarei esta torre.

10 Zebá e Zalmuna estavam em Carcor com o seu exército, cerca de quinze mil homens, os restantes de todo o exército dos filhos do oriente; pois haviam caído cento e vinte mil homens que puxavam da espada.

11 subiu Gideão pelo caminho dos que habitavam em tendas, ao oriente de Nobá e Jogbeá, e feriu aquele exército, porquanto se dava por seguro.

12 E, fugindo Zebá e Zalmuna, Gideão os perseguiu, tomou presos esses dois reis dos midianitas e desbaratou todo o exército.