John Gill's Exposition on Judges 12:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he had forty sons, and thirty nephews, etc.] Or sons’ sons, that is, grandsons; so that he lived not only to see his sons married, but his grandchildren grown up to men’s estate; since it follows, that rode on seventy ass colts; who were either employed by him to ride about on these animals, which in those times were honourable; (see <070510> Judges 5:10) to administer justice throughout the nation in their circuits; or rather, not following any trade, or being concerned in husbandry, or feeding cattle, but being men of estates, rode about like gentlemen: and he judged Israel eight years; in his time it is said f258 the city of Troy was destroyed; so Eusebius f259, who calls this judge Labdon, though he elsewhere f260 places it in the times of Eli; (see Gill on “<071209>Judges 12:9”).

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