And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
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Gill's Exposition
And his fellow answered and said,.... As the dream was no doubt from God, so the interpretation of it was; it was he that put into the mind of the soldier's comrade to whom he told it to interpret it…
Barnes' Notes
This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon - The word rendered tumbled in Jdg 7:13, is rather descriptive of a sword brandished (compare Gen 3:24). Hence, the interpretation “the sword of Gideon.”…
Gideon's army being diminished as we have found it was, he must either fight by faith or not at all; God therefore here provides recruits for his faith, instead of recruits for his forces.
I. He…
Cambridge Bible
of Gideon the son of Joash The phrase which follows means the men of Israel, as in Jdg 7:7; Jdg 7:7, Jdg 8:22; Jdg 9:55; Jdg 20:20, the sing, being used in a collective sense; and this rendering…
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