Judges 3:21
drove ..... belly <08628 0990> [thrust it.]
Judges 8:16
leaders <02205> [the elders.]
thorns <06975> [thorns.]
threshed <03045> [taught. Heb. made to know.]
Instead of {wyyodÆ’,} Houbigant, Le Clerc, and others read {wyyadosh,} "and he tore or threshed;" and this is not only agreeable to what Gideon threatened (ver. 7), but is supported by the LXX. Vulgate, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. The Hebrew text might easily have been corrupted simply by the change of [ShÅ’yn,] {shin,} into ['Ayin,] {ayin,} letters very similar to each other.
Judges 9:43
Judges 13:19
took <03947> [took.]
did ... amazing <06381 06213> [did wondrously.]
He acted according to His Name: He, being wonderful, performed wonders; probably causing fire to arise out of the rock and consume the sacrifice, and then ascended in the flame.
Judges 18:20
happy <03820> [heart.]
joined <0935> [went.]
He was glad of his preferment among the Danites; and went into the crowd, that he might not be discovered by Micah or his family.
Judges 19:29
carved ... up <05408 06106> [divided her.]
It is probable, that with the pieces he sent to each tribe a circumstantial account of the barbarity of the men of Gibeah; and that they considered each of the pieces as expressing an execration. That a similar custom prevailed in ancient times is evident from 1 SA 11:7. It had an inhuman appearance, thus to mangle the corpse of this unhappy woman; but it was intended to excite a keener resentment against so horrible a crime, which called for a punishment proportionally severe.
<06106> [with her bones.]
