Judges 7:25
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| Overview - Judges 7 | |
| 1 | Gideon's army of two and thirty thousand is brought to three hundred. |
| 9 | He is encouraged by the dream and interpretation of the burley cake. |
| 16 | His stratagem of trumpets and lamps in pitchers. |
| 24 | The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb. |
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Judges 7:25 (King James Version)
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
- two princes
- 8:3 Psalms 83:11 Psalms 83:12
- rock
- Joshua 7:26 ; Isaiah 10:26
- Oreb
- Eusebius and Jerome speak of a small place called Araba, three miles west from Scythopolis, which is supposed by some to have had its name from Oreb.
- and brought
- Among ancient nations, the head of the conquered chief was usually brought to the conqueror. Thus Pompey's head was brought to Csar, Cicero's head to Mark Anthony, and the heads of Ahab's children to Jehu. These barbarities are seldom practised now, except among the Mahommedans, or the savages of Africa and America; and for the credit of human nature, it is to be wished that such atrocities had never been committed.
- on the other side
- The words {maiaiver lyyarden,} may denote at the passage of Jordan, or from beyond Jordan. Gideon does not appear to have yet passed the Jordan.
- 8:4