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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Judges 12
and. This "and" is read in the text in some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.
frame = take heed, give attention.
forty and two thousand = 40 + 2,000 = 2,040. The whole tribe numbered only 32,500 at previous census (Numbers 26:37; see note on Judges 7:3), and that was less than the first numbering (Numbers 1:33). Only 1,000 from each tribe formed the army. Numbers 31:4, Numbers 31:6.
judged. First, deliverance; then rule.
buried in one of the cities. City unnamed. Memory not honoured, though mentioned in Hebrews 11:32; yet the last name in that list.
mount = hill country.
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