Hakim-hakim 7:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu Gideon menyuruh rakyat itu turun minum air, dan berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadanya: "Barangsiapa yang menghirup air dengan lidahnya seperti anjing menjilat, haruslah kaukumpulkan tersendiri, demikian juga semua orang yang berlutut untuk minum."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu Gideon menyuruh rakyat itu turun minum air, dan berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadanya: "Barangsiapa yang menghirup air dengan lidahnya seperti anjing menjilat, haruslah kaukumpulkan tersendiri, demikian juga semua orang yang berlutut untuk minum."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, maka disuruhnya orang banyak itu turun ke tempat air, lalu firman Tuhan kepada Gideon: Barangsiapa yang menjilat menghirup dari pada air itu dengan lidahnya seperti anjing menjilat, ia itu hendaklah kauasingkan; demikianpun segala orang yang bertelut hendak minum.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Ierobaal (who is Gedeon) and all ye people yt were with him, rose vp early, & pytched besyde the wel of Harad: so that the hoaste of the Madianites were on the northsyde of them by the hyll of Moreh in the valley. ² And the Lord sayd vnto Gedeon: The people that are with thee, are to many for me to geue ye Madianites into their handes, lest Israel make their vaunt against me, and saye: Myne owne hand hath saued me. ³ Nowe therfore make a proclamation in the eares of people, and saye: If any man dread or be afeard, let him returne and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people xxii. thousande, & there abode ten thousande. ⁴ And the Lord sayd vnto Gedeon: The people are yet to many, bryng them downe vnto the water, and I will trye them vnto thee there. And of whom I say vnto thee, this shal go with thee: the same shal go with thee. And of whom soeuer I say vnto thee, this shal not go with thee: the same shal not go. ⁵ So he brought downe the people vnto the water: And the Lord said vnto Gedeon, As many as lappe ye water with their tongues as a dogge lappeth, them put by them selues, and [so do] them that kneele downe vpon their knees to drincke. ⁶ And the number of them that put their handes to their mouthes and lapped, were three hundred men: But all ye remnaunt of ye people kneeled downe vpon their knees to dryncke water. ⁷ And the Lorde sayd vnto Gedeon: By these three hundred men that lapped will I saue you, and deliuer the Madianites into thyne hande: And let all the other people go euery man vnto his place. ⁸ They therfore of the people toke vittailes with them, and their trumpettes: And he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and retayned those three hundreth men: And the hoast of Madian was beneath him in a valley.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lappeth: The original word yalok, is precisely the sound which the dog makes in lapping. It appears that it is not unusual for the Arabs to drink water out of the palms of their hands; and, from this account, we learn that the Israelites did so occasionally. Dr. A. Clarke, in his edition of Harmer, has presented us with the following curious manuscript note from Dr. Russell. "When they take water with the palms of their hands, they naturally place themselves on their hams, to be nearer the water; but when they drink from a pitcher or gourd, fresh filled, they do not sit down on purpose to drink, but drink standing, and very often put the sleeve of their shirt over the mouth of the vessel, by way of strainer, lest small leeches might have been taken up with the water. For the same reason they often prefer taking the water with the palm of the hand to lapping it from the surface." From the letters of Busbequius we learn, that the Eastern people are not in the habit of drinking standing. The 300 men, who satisfied their thirst in the most expeditious manner, by this sufficiently indicated their spirit, and alacrity to follow Gideon in his dangerous enterprise; while the rest shewed their love of ease, self-indulgence, effeminacy, and want of courage. Judges 7:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:13 - make me thereof Psalms 110:7 - He shall

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.

Exodus 39:32
Thus was all the worke of the tabernacle [euen] of the tabernacle of the congregation finished: And the children of Israel did according to al that the lorde commaunded Moyses, euen so did they.

Exodus 40:16
And Moyses dyd accordyng to all that the Lorde commaunded hym, euen so dyd he.

Psalms 119:6
I shall take then no shame: when I haue regarde vnto all thy commaundementes.

Matthew 3:15
Iesus aunsweryng, sayde vnto hym: Suffer it to be so nowe. For thus it becommeth vs, to fulfyll all righteousnes. Then he suffred hym.

Luke 8:21
He aunswered, and sayde vnto them: My mother & my brethren are these, which heare the worde of God, & do it.

John 2:5
His mother sayth vnto the ministers: Whatsoeuer he sayth vnto you, do it.

John 13:17
Yf ye knowe these thynges, happy are ye, yf ye do them.

Philippians 2:8
He humbled hym selfe, made obedient vnto death, euen the death of the crosse.

Hebrews 5:8
Though he were the sonne, yet learned he obediece, by these thinges which he suffred:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he brought them down to the water,....] His whole army of 10,000 men:

and the Lord said unto Gideon, everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shall thou set by himself; this has led some, as particularly Grotius, to think of the Egyptian dogs; of whom Aelianus relates b, that they do not drink at once freely, and to satiety, being afraid of the crocodiles in the river; but run about the bank, and by stealth snatch a little here and a little there, and so satisfy themselves: but the allusion here is to dogs in common, whose usual way it is not to sup in, and drink a drought, but by putting out their tongues to lick and lap water with them, as Aristotle c says all creatures do that have teeth like saws; and the likeness between the drinking of these men, to be observed lay not in anything else but in the single action of lapping; for they first took the water in the hollow of their hands, out of the stream, and then lapped it, as in Judges 7:6 whereas a dog does not and cannot take water that way; and this lapping was standing upright, whereas dogs in common, as Aelianus in the same place suggests, bow themselves, and lap as much water as will satisfy their thirst; and by this these men were distinguished from those that bowed on their knees to drink; for had they not taken up water in their hands, they must have bowed down on their knees to have lapped, as well as those did, to sup it, or take in a large draught of it; now all those that thus lapped were to be set apart by themselves; but whether they were to go with Gideon or not, as yet he knew not: likewise everyone that boweth down on his knee to drink; were to be set by themselves also, but which of those were to go with him is after related.

b Var. Hist. l. 1. c. 4. c Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 7:5. Every one that lappeth of the water - as a dog — The original word ילק yalok is precisely the sound which a dog makes when he is drinking.