Judices 8:2

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Faciesque urbi Hai, et regi ejus, sicut fecisti Jericho, et regi illius : prædam vero, et omnia animantia diripietis vobis : pone insidias urbi post eam.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quibus ille respondit: Quod enim tale facere potui, quale vos fecistis? nonne melior est racemus Ephraim, vindemiis Abiezer?

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quibus ille respondit: "Quid enim tale facere potui, quale vos fecistis? Nonne melior est racemus Ephraim vindemiis Abiezer?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Galatians 5:14, Galatians 5:15, Philippians 2:2, Philippians 2:3, James 1:19, James 1:20, James 3:13-18

Is not the: That is, the Ephraimites have performed more important services than Gideon and his men had achieved.

Abiezer: Judges 6:11, Judges 6:34

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:10 - glean Numbers 26:30 - Jeezer Joshua 17:2 - the children 1 Chronicles 7:18 - General Isaiah 17:6 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto them,.... In a very mild and gentle manner, giving soft words, which turn away wrath:

what have I done in comparison of you? he and his men, he signifies, had only blew trumpets, broke pitchers, and held torches; it was the Lord that did all, and set the Midianites one against another to slay each other; and in the pursuit as yet he had only picked up and slain some common soldiers, they had taken two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and had brought their heads in triumph to him:

is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? the family of Abiezer, of which Gideon was; the meaning is, that whereas he began the fight, which may be called the vintage, and they had finished it, which was like gleaning; yet what they did last was much preferable to what was done by him at first; or the princes of Midian, which they had taken in the pursuit, and was like gleaning after a vintage, were equal, yea, superior to all the camp of Midian, or that part of it that had fallen into his hands. The Targum is,

"are not the weak of the house of Ephraim better than the strong of the house of Abiezer?''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A civil war with the great tribe of Ephraim would soon have turned Israel’s victory into mourning. Gideon therefore soothes their wounded pride by confessing that Ephraim had done more, though they had joined him so late in the day, than he had been able to effect in the whole campaign. The grape-gleaning of Ephraim was better than the whole vintage of Abi-ezer.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:2. Is not the gleaning, c. — That is, The Ephraimites have performed more important services than Gideon and his men and he supports the assertion by observing that it was they who took the two Midianitish generals, having discomfited their hosts at the passes of Jordan.