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**host** = camp.

**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . lest, &c. This is the real reason of this direction.

**mount Gilead.** What was more natural than that the half tribe of Manasseh on the west side of Jordan should so name a mount in *their* tribe in compliment to the famous mount on the east side? ([Genesis 31:21-26](../../../kjv/genesis/31/21-26) ; [Genesis 37:25](../../../kjv/genesis/37/25) .[Numbers 32:1](../../../kjv/numbers/32/1) , [Numbers 32:40](../../../kjv/numbers/32/40) . [Deuteronomy 3:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/15) .[Joshua 17:1](../../../kjv/joshua/17/1); [Joshua 17:1](../../../kjv/joshua/17/1) ). Gideon was of that tribe. Probably "the wood of Ephraim", on east side; so named here out of compliment to the half tribe on west side ([2 Samuel 18:6](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/6) ).
**twenty** = probably 20 + 2,000 = 2,020. Compare [Judges 12:6](../../../kjv/judges/12/6) . [1 Samuel 6:19](../../../kjv/1-samuel/6/19) . If there remained 10,000, there must have been 10,000 + 2,020 = 12,020; and, as only 300 remained, 9,700 must have gone away at the second testing. Only 1,000 of each tribe = 12,000, sent out to fight in [Numbers 31:4](../../../kjv/numbers/31/4) , [Numbers 31:5](../../../kjv/numbers/31/5) .

**lappeth:** i.e. without kneeling down as idolaters were accustomed to do ( 1Ki 19:18 . [2 Chronicles 29:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/29/9) . See note on [Esther 3:2](../../../kjv/esther/3/2) .
**as** = according as.

**the People.** So the 300 are called.

**Amalekites.** See note on [Exodus 17:16](../../../kjv/exodus/17/16) .
**children** = sons.
**grasshoppers** = locusts.
**as the sand, &c.** Figure of speech *Paroemia.*

**behold . . . Behold . . . lo.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* (three times). App-6 .
**a dream.** See note on [Genesis 20:3](../../../kjv/genesis/20/3) .

**God** = *ha-'Elohim* here (= the God), because in connection with Midianites, His creatures. Not Jehovah, App-4 .

**lamps** = torches, which smoulder till waved in the air.

**The sword.** These words are supplied by Figure of speech *Ellipsis* from [Judges 7:20](../../../kjv/judges/7/20) . But some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read these words in the text. Literally "For Jehovah and for Gideon".

**mount** = hill country.

**two princes.** Compare [Psalms 83:11](../../../kjv/psalms/83/11) .[Isaiah 10:26](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/26) .

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