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Juízes 8:10

Estavam, pois, Zeba e Salmuna em Carcor, e os seus exrcitos com eles, uns quinze mil homens, todos os que restaram do exrcito dos filhos do oriente; e os que caram foram cento e vinte mil homens, que puxavam da espada.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gideon;   Israel;   Karkor;   Patriotism;   Zalmunna;   Zebah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;   Ishmaelites, the;   Midianites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - East;   Peniel or Penuel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Gilead;   Easton Bible Dictionary - East, Children of the;   Karkor;   Penuel;   Zalmunna;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Karkor;   Oreb;   Succoth;   Zebah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Judges, Book of;   Kadmonite;   Karkor;   Nobah;   Zalmunna;   Zebah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - East, Children of the;   Gideon;   Judges (1);   Karkor;   Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Thorns, Thistles, Etc;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Karkor ;   Penuel ;   Succoth ;   Zalmunna ;   Zebah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Midian;   Succoth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bene-Ke'dem;   Kar'kor;   Ze'bah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gideon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - East, Children of the;   Karkor;   Midian;   Palestine;   Zebah and Zalmunna;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gideon;   Peniel;   Zalmunna;  

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Estavam, pois, Zeba e Salmuna em Carcor, e os seus exrcitos, com eles, uns quinze mil homens, todos os que restaram do exrcito de povos do Oriente; e os que caram foram cento e vinte mil homens que puxavam da espada.
Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Estavam, pois, Zeba e Salmuna em Carcor, e os seus exrcitos com eles, uns quinze mil homens, todos os que ficaram do exrcito dos filhos do Oriente; e os que caram foram cento e vinte mil homens, que arrancavam a espada.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Karkor: If this were the name of a place, it is no where else mentioned. Some contend that karkor signifies rest; and the Vulgate renders it requiescebant, "rested". This seems the most likely; for it is said - Judges 8:11 that Gideon "smote the host: for the host was secure."

children: Judges 7:12

fell an hundred: etc. or, an hundred and twenty thousand every one drawing a sword, Judges 7:22, Judges 20:2, Judges 20:15, Judges 20:17, Judges 20:25, Judges 20:35, Judges 20:46, 2 Kings 3:26, 2 Chronicles 13:17, 2 Chronicles 28:6, 2 Chronicles 28:8, Isaiah 37:36

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:1 - came Judges 6:3 - children Judges 6:5 - as grasshoppers Judges 6:33 - children Job 1:3 - men Isaiah 9:4 - as in the day Ezekiel 25:4 - men

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 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.

u De loc. Heb. fol. 90. B. w Antiqu. l. 5. c. 6. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Zebah and Zalmunna seem to have fled nearly due east to Karkor, which was probably an enclosure of some kind (perhaps a walled sheepfold, compare Numbers 31:32 note). Its site is unknown; but it was near Nobah, in the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead Numbers 32:40, and Jogbehah was in the tribe of Gad Numbers 32:34-35. Gideon, perhaps taking a circuit so as to come upon them from the east, fell suddenly upon them, apparently at night, surprised them, and smote them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:10. Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor — If this were a place, it is nowhere else mentioned in Scripture. Some contend that קרקר karkor signifies rest; and thus the Vulgate understood it: Zebah and Zalmunna requiescebant, rested, with all their army. And this seems the most likely, for it is said, Judges 8:11, that Gideon smote the host, for the host was secure.


 
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