the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Jueces 7:24
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Y Gedeón envió mensajeros por toda la región montañosa de Efraín, diciendo: Descended contra Madián y tomad antes que ellos los vados, hasta Bet-bara y el Jordán. Y todos los hombres de Efraín se reunieron y tomaron los vados hasta Bet-bara y el Jordán.
Gedeón también envió mensajeros á todo el monte de Ephraim, diciendo: Descended al encuentro de los Madianitas, y tomadles las aguas hasta Beth-bara y el Jordán. Y juntos todos los hombres de Ephraim, tomaron las aguas de Beth-bara y el Jordán.
Gedeón también envió mensajeros a todo el monte de Efraín, diciendo: Descended al encuentro de los madianitas, y tomadles las aguas hasta Bet-bara y el Jordán. Y juntos todos los varones de Efraín, tomaron las aguas de Bet-bara y el Jordán.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sent: Judges 3:27, Romans 15:30, Philippians 1:27
take before: Judges 3:28, Judges 12:5
Bethbarah: Probably the same as Betha-bara, beyond Jordan, and at the ford where the Hebrews passed under the direction of Joshua. John 1:28
Reciprocal: Judges 6:33 - went over Judges 8:3 - God 2 Samuel 20:21 - a man
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all Mount Ephraim,.... To raise the inhabitants of it, who lay nearer Jordan, to which the Midianites would make, in order to intercept them in their flight; or however get possession of the fords of Jordan before them, and hinder their passage over it:
saying, come down against the Midianites; for though he had routed them, and they were fled before him, yet he had not men enough with him to destroy them; and besides, as they had their camels to ride on, and he and his men only on foot, they could not come up with them:
and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan; namely, all the fords and passages over Jordan, reaching from the lake of Gennesaret to Bethbarah, the same with Bethabara, John 1:28 which was a passage over Jordan; or these waters were, as Kimchi thinks, distinct from those of Jordan; and were waters that lay in the way of the flight of the Midianites, before they came to Bethbarah, their passage over Jordan; and Jarchi thinks they were waters, which divided between Syria and the land of Canaan, which is not likely; others think the waters are the same with Jordan, and render the words, "take the waters" --even Jordan o; gain the passes over that before them, and so prevent their escape to their own land:
then all the men of Ephraim; that is, great numbers of them, whose hearts were inclined to, and whose situation lay best for this service:
gathered themselves together; in a body, at some place of rendezvous appointed:
and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan; took possession of all the passes, and guarded them, as Gideon directed.
o "Nempe Jordanis aquas", Junius Tremellius "nempe Jordanem", Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The waters - The streams which run from the mountain district of Ephraim into the Jordan in the district of Beth-shan, forming great pools and marshes, which the Midianites fleeing south would have to cross before they could reach the Jordan fords.
All the men of Ephraim - They had taken no previous part in the rising against Midian: nor had Gideon, of the smaller tribe of Manasseh, presumed before to summon his more powerful and arrogant brethren of the great tribe of Ephraim (see Joshua 17:14-18).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 7:24. Take before them the waters unto Beth-barah — This is probably the same place as that mentioned John 1:28, where the Hebrews forded Jordan under the direction of Joshua. To this place the Midianites directed their flight that they might escape into their own country; and here, being met by the Ephraimites, they appear to have been totally overthrown, and their two generals taken.
