Jueces 8:10

10 Para entonces, Zeba y Zalmuna se encontraban en Carcor con quince mil guerreros, que era todo lo que quedaba de los ejércitos aliados del oriente, porque ya habían matado a ciento veinte mil.

Jueces 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.

Jueces 8:10 In-Context

8 Desde allí Gedeón subió a Peniel
y una vez más pidió alimentos, pero obtuvo la misma respuesta.

9 Así que le dijo a la gente de Peniel: «Cuando vuelva victorioso, derribaré esta torre».

10 Para entonces, Zeba y Zalmuna se encontraban en Carcor con quince mil guerreros, que era todo lo que quedaba de los ejércitos aliados del oriente, porque ya habían matado a ciento veinte mil.

11 Entonces Gedeón rodeó por la ruta de las caravanas que está al oriente de Noba y Jogbeha, y tomó al ejército madianita por sorpresa.

12 Así que Zeba y Zalmuna, los dos reyes madianitas, huyeron, pero Gedeón los persiguió y capturó a todos sus guerreros.