Hakim-hakim 7:24

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Gideon menyuruh juga orang ke seluruh pegunungan Efraim dengan pesan: "Turunlah menghadapi orang Midian, dan dudukilah segala batang air sampai ke Bet-Bara, dan juga sungai Yordan." Maka semua orang Efraim dikerahkan, lalu mereka menduduki segala batang air sampai ke Bet-Bara, juga sungai Yordan.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Gideon menyuruh juga orang ke seluruh pegunungan Efraim dengan pesan: "Turunlah menghadapi orang Midian, dan dudukilah segala batang air sampai ke Bet-Bara, dan juga sungai Yordan." Maka semua orang Efraim dikerahkan, lalu mereka menduduki segala batang air sampai ke Bet-Bara, juga sungai Yordan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka disuruhkan Gideon lagi utusan kepada segala gunung Efrayim, mengatakan: Turunlah kamu akan mendatangi orang Midian dan sakatkanlah mereka itu segala pangkalan tambang yang di Bait-Bara, yaitu di Yarden; maka dikerahkannyalah segala orang Efrayim, lalu disakatkanlah segala pangkalan tambang yang di Bait-Bara pada sungai Yarden.

Contextual Overview

²³ And the men of Israel being gathered together out of Nephthalim, of Aser, and of all Manasses, folowed after the Madianites. ²⁴ And Gedeon sent messengers vnto al mount Ephraim, saying: Come downe against the Madianites, and take before them the waters vnto Bethbarath, and to Iordane. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together, & toke the waters vnto Bethbarath, & to Iordane. ²⁵ And they toke two princes of the Madianites, Oreb and Zeb: and slue Oreb vpon the rocke Oreb, and Zeb at the winepresse of Zeb, and folowed after Madian: and brought the heades of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon on the other syde Iordane.

Bible Verse Review
  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

Cross-References

Genesis 7:3
Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen, the male and the female, to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth.

Genesis 7:4
For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.

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.