Jueces 8:10

10 Zeba y Zalmuna estaban en Carcor con una fuerza de quince mil guerreros, que era todo lo que quedaba de los ejércitos del oriente, pues habían caído en batalla ciento veinte mil soldados.

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 subió a Peniel y les pidió lo mismo. Pero los de Peniel le dieron la misma respuesta que los hombres de Sucot.

9 Por eso les advirtió a los hombres de Peniel: «Cuando yo vuelva victorioso, derribaré esta torre».

10 Zeba y Zalmuna estaban en Carcor con una fuerza de quince mil guerreros, que era todo lo que quedaba de los ejércitos del oriente, pues habían caído en batalla ciento veinte mil soldados.

11 Gedeón subió por la ruta de los nómadas, al este de Noba y Yogbea, y atacó al ejército cuando este se creía seguro.

12 Huyeron Zeba y Zalmuna, los dos reyes de Madián, pero él los persiguió y los capturó, aterrorizando a todo el ejército.