They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
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They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
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They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
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(14-14) They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
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- Numbers 31:9 The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.
- Numbers 31:30-47 Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.” Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses. Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, seventy-two thousand head of cattle, sixty-one thousand donkeys, and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep; and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two. The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one. The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons. Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, thirty-six thousand head of cattle, thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, and sixteen thousand persons), even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- 1 Samuel 30:20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
- 1 Chronicles 4:41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 5:21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle,…
2Ch 14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
Ver. 15. They smote also the tents of cattle.] The Arabian Scenites, who had also aided the Ethiopians, and now had enough of it. "So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord."
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The tents of cattle, i.e. the dwellers in tents,…
The tents of cattle, i.e. the dwellers in tents, which were either a part of Zerah’s company, or joined with them, or had come along with them to furnish that great host with necessary provisions, which their custom of dwelling in tents made them more capable of doing.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. Tents of cattle] Those which had carried…
Verse 15. Tents of cattle] Those which had carried the baggage of the great army, and which they had left in such places as abounded with pasture. Perhaps sheepfolds, enclosures for camels, mules, c., may also be intended. The discomfiture was great, because God fought for the people and the spoil was immense, because the multitude was prodigious, indeed almost incredible, a million of men in one place is almost too much for the mind to conceive, but there may be some mistake in the numerals: it is evident from the whole account that the number was vast and the spoil great.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Destroyed. Hebrew, "smote also the tents of cattle." Septuagint,…
Destroyed. Hebrew, "smote also the tents of cattle." Septuagint, "they cut in pieces the tents of cattle, the Amazons;" or, according to the Vatican copy, (Haydock) "the Alimazonians," as they seem to have read aeli manim, which may be well rendered, "the tents of the Mineans," a people of Arabia, chap. xx. 1., and xxvi. 7., and Judges x. 11. (Calmet) --- If these nations came to punish Asa, for banishing their foreign worship, (ver. 12) as the Sieur de Folard thinks the sacred penman insinuates, (ver. 5) we need not wonder that they met with such ill success, and that not one of them was spared, as God avenged his own cause, ver. 12, 13. (Haydock) --- We read of no cavalry here, though it is mentioned, chap. xvi. 8. It seems not to have been considerable, as the people of Asia, the Greeks and Romans, trusted more to their infantry; and, in effect, no species of warfare is more costly to a state, nor less useful, than a multitude of horses, which were introduced in barbarous times. (De Folard)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. the tents of cattle] These words seem to…
15. the tents of cattle] These words seem to be corrupt, and it is probable that the original reading gave the name of some Arabian tribe. From a comparison of the LXX. here with the LXX. of 2Ch_22:1 we conclude that this name was represented by Ἀλειμαζονεϊς in Greek. The people called Μασονῖται by Ptolemy, and Mâzin by Arabic writers are probably meant (Hommel, Expository Times, viii. 378).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) They smote also the tents of cattle.—And cattle…
(15) They smote also the tents of cattle.—And cattle tents (or encampments), also they smote, i.e., hordes of nomad Bedawin whom they encountered in the desert about Gerar. (Comp. 1Ch_4:41, “smote their tents.”)
Sheep and camels in abundance.—Sheep in abundance, and camels. The LXX. adds, καὶ τοὺς αλιμαζονεις, apparently as the name of a tribe. Syriac and Arabic render, “And the tents of the Arabs.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The tents of cattle. This word "tents" (yleh construct…
The tents of cattle. This word "tents" (yleh construct state) is used just 325 times, and this is the only time it is spoken of as the place of cattle; there are, however, four passages looking the same way (Gen_13:5; Jud_1:6:5; 2Ki_7:7; Jer_49:29) It is the word used for the tabernacle of the wilderness many times, and many times for the place of abode that has highest associations, (Psa_15:1 Psa_118:15) and of the usual abodes of people. (2Ch_10:16) The use of the word here, though unique, will occasion no surprise, considering the camping of the vast invading army. Camels in abundance. The mention of this spoil reminds us both where we are, on desert border, (1Sa_27:7-10 1Sa_30:16, 1Sa_30:17) and what was the personality or nationality within some latitude of choice of the invaders. Returned to Jerusalem. The expression awakens inevitably, though inaptly, a reminiscence of Scripture language in strangest contrast the climax in a description also, but of a victory infinitely vaster and grander and for ever (Luk_24:52; Act_1:12) This return of "Asa and the people that were with him" to Jerusalem dated the commencement of a period of comparative internal peace and reform for the kingdom of Judah, that lasted twenty-one years, and yet more of exemption from Egyptian attack, that lasted about three hundred and thirty years (B.C. circ. 940-609). It was a doubtful benefit, but Judah and Egypt came to be found in alliance against Assyria (2Ki_17:3-6 2Ki_18:20, 2Ki_18:21, 2Ki_18:24; Isa_30:2; Hos_7:11) The "Speaker"s Commentary" points out the interesting fact that this was one of the only two occasions known of the Jews meeting in open field either Egypt or Assyria (the other occasion being the unfortunate one of Josiah against Necho, (1Ch 35:30) and adds, "Shishak, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, and Ptolemy I, were either unopposed or only opposed from behind wails."
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