Judges 1:1-7
Now Josh 24:29-30 asked Judg 20:18, Judg 20:28; Exod 28:30; Num 27:21; 1Sam 22:9-10, 1Sam 23:9-10 Gen 49:8-10; Num 2:3, Num 7:12; Ps 78:68-70; Heb 7:14; Rev 5:5, Rev 19:11-16 Simeon Gen 29:33; Josh 19:1 I likewise Judg 1:17; 2Sam 10:11 Lord Exod 23:28-29; Deut 7:2, Deut 9:3; Josh 10:8-10, Josh 11:6-8; 1Sam 14:6, 1Sam 14:10; 1Sam 17:46-47; 1Kgs 22:6, 1Kgs 22:15 Bezek Eusebius and Jerome mention two villages of this name, near each other, about seventeen miles from Shechem, towards Scythopolis. 1Sam 11:8 their thumbs Heb. the thumbs of their hands and of their feet, This was not an unusual act of cruelty in ancient times towards enemies. - Alian informs us, that in after ages "the Athenians, at the instigation of Cleon, son of Cleoenetus, made a decree that all the inhabitants of the island of Agina should have the thumb cut off from the right hand, so that they might ever after be disabled from holding a spear, yet might handle an oar." It was a custom among those Romans who did not like a military life, to cut off their thumbs, that they might be incapable of serving in the army; and for the same reason, parents sometimes cut off the thumbs of their children. gathered or, gleaned as I have Exod 21:23-25; Lev 24:19-21; 1Sam 15:33; Isa 33:1; Matt 7:1-2; Luke 6:37-38; Rom 2:15; Jas 2:13; Rev 13:10, Rev 16:6
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