Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Zebah	וְזֶ֨בַח ve.Ze.vach	H2078	Zebach · conjunction + proper noun, a man's name
Zalmunna	וְצַלְמֻנָּ֜ע ve.tzal.mu.Na'	H6759	Tsalmunna · conjunction + proper noun, a man's name
Karkor	בַּקַּרְקֹ֗ר ba.kar.Kor	H7174	Karkor · preposition with the article + proper noun, a place name
hosts	וּמַחֲנֵיהֶ֤ם u.ma.cha.nei.Hem	H4264	an encampment (of travellers or troops) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
fifteen	כַּחֲמֵ֤שֶׁת ka.cha.Me.shet	H2568	five · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
thousand	אֶ֔לֶף 'E.lef	H505	hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alph… · noun, common both genders singular absolute
left	הַנּ֣וֹתָרִ֔ים ha.No.ta.Rim	H3498	to jut over or exceed · definite article + verb, niphal active participle, masculine plural absolute
hosts	מַחֲנֵ֣ה ma.cha.Neh	H4264	an encampment (of travellers or troops) · noun, common feminine singular construct
children	בְנֵי ve.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
east	קֶ֑דֶם Ke.dem	H6924	the front · noun, common masculine singular absolute
fell	וְהַנֹּ֣פְלִ֔ים ve.ha.No.fe.Lim	H5307	to fall · conjunction + definite article + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural absolute
hundred	מֵאָ֨ה me.'Ah	H3967	a hundred · noun, common feminine singular absolute
twenty	וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים ve.'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
thousand	אֶ֛לֶף 'E.lef	H505	hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alph… · noun, common both genders singular absolute
men	אִ֖ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
drew	שֹׁ֥לֵֽף Sho.lef	H8025	to pull out · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
sword	חָֽרֶב Cha.rev	H2719	drought · noun, common feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their ca…
Judges 20:2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred t…
Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitant…
Judges 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
Judges 20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen…
Judges 20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an h…
Judges 20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
2 Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through ev…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 8:4-17

In these verses we have, I. Gideon, as a valiant general, pursuing the remaining Midianites, and bravely following his blow. A very great slaughter was made of the enemy at first: 120,000 men that drew the sword, Jdg 8:10. Such a terrible execution did they make among themselves, and so easy a prey were they to Israel. But, it seems, the two kings of Midian, being better provided than the rest for an escape, with 15,000 men got over Jordan before the passes could be secured by the Ephraimites, and made towards their own country. Gideon thinks he does not fully execute his commission to save Israel if he let them escape. He is not content to chase them out of the country, but he will chase th…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 8:10

ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA TAKEN. (Jdg. 8:10-27) Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor--a town on the eastern confines of Gad. The wreck of the Midianite army halted there.

John Gill on Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor..... Jerom (u) 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 (w) 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 con…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 8:4-12

Pursuit and Complete Overthrow of the Midianites. - That the Midianites whom God had delivered into his hand might be utterly destroyed, Gideon pursued those who had escaped across the Jordan, till he overtook them on the eastern boundary of Gilead and smote them there. Jdg 8:4-5 When he came to the Jordan with his three hundred men, who were exhausted with the pursuit, he asked the inhabitants of Succoth for loaves of bread for the people in his train. So far as the construction is concerned, the words from עבר to ורדפים form a circumstantial clause inserted as a parenthesis into the principal sentence, and subordinate to it: "When Gideon came to the Jordan, passing over he and the three hu…

Dictionary and topics

Benekedem — (the children of the East), an appellation given to a people or to peoples dwelling to the east of Palestine. It occurs in (Genesis 29:1; Judges 6:3,33; 7:12; 8:10; Job 1:3)
Karkor — Foundation, a place in the open desert wastes on the east of Jordan (Judg. 8:10), not far beyond Succoth and Penuel, to the south. Here Gideon overtook and routed a fugitive band of Midianites under…
Penuel — Face of God, a place not far from Succoth, on the east of the Jordan and north of the river Jabbok. It is also called “Peniel.” Here Jacob wrestled (Gen. 32:24-32) “with a man” (“the angel”, Hos.…
Zalmunna — One of the two kings of Midian whom the “Lord delivered” into the hands of Gideon. He was slain afterwards with Zebah (Judg. 8:5-21). (See ZEBAH.)
Zebah — Man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judg. 8). Zebah and…
Armies · Called the: Hosts — Called the: Hosts
Gideon · Leads an army against and — Leads an army against and
Ishmaelites, The · Overcome by: Gideon — Overcome by: Gideon
Karkor · A city in the territory of the tribe of Gad — A city in the territory of the tribe of Gad
Midianites · Miraculously defeated and destroyed by Gideon — Miraculously defeated and destroyed by Gideon
Patriotism · .The inhabitants of Succoth and Pe — .The inhabitants of Succoth and Pe
Zalmunna

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 8:4-17

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 8:10

John Gill on Judges 8:10

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 8:4-12

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 8:4-17

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 8:10

John Gill on Judges 8:10

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 8:4-12

Dictionary and topics

Rashi on Judges 8:10