Shìshījì 8:10

10 Nàshí Xībā hé sǎ mù ná , bìng gēnsuí tāmende jūnduì dōu zaì jiā gè , yuē yǒu yī wàn wǔ qiā rén , jiù shì dōngfāngrén quán jūn suǒ shèngxia de . yǐjing beì shā yuē yǒu shí èr wàn ná dāo de .

Shìshījì 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.

Shìshījì 8:10 In-Context

8 Jīdiàn cóng nàli shàng dào Pínǔyīlè , duì nàli de rén yĕ shì zhèyàng shuō . Pínǔyīlè rén yĕ yǔ Shūgē rén huídá tāde huà yíyàng .

9 Tā xiàng Pínǔyīlè rén shuō , wǒ píng píngān ān huí lái de shíhou , wǒ bì chāihuǐ zhè lóu .

10 Nàshí Xībā hé sǎ mù ná , bìng gēnsuí tāmende jūnduì dōu zaì jiā gè , yuē yǒu yī wàn wǔ qiā rén , jiù shì dōngfāngrén quán jūn suǒ shèngxia de . yǐjing beì shā yuē yǒu shí èr wàn ná dāo de .

11 Jīdiàn jiù yóu nuó bā hé yuē bǐ hā dōngbiān , cóng zhù zhàngpéng rén de lù shàng qù , shā baì le Mǐdiàn rén de jūn bīng , yīnwei tāmen tǎnrán wú jù .

12 Xībā hé sǎ mù ná taópǎo . Jīdiàn zhuīgǎn tāmen , zhuō zhù Mǐdiàn de èr wáng Xībā hé sǎ mù ná , jīng sǎn quán jūn .