John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 83:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Which perished at Endor, etc.] Aben Ezra and Kimchi understand this of the Midianites; but rather it is to be understood of Jabin and Sisera, and the army under them, who perished at this place, which is mentioned along with Taanach and Megiddo, (<061711>Joshua 17:11), which are the very places where the battle was fought between Jabin and Israel, (<070519>Judges 5:19) according to Jerom f1194, it was four miles from Mount Tabor to the south, and was a large village in his days, and was near to Nain, the place where Christ raised the widow’s son from the dead, (<420711>Luke 7:11 <092807>1 Samuel 28:7) they became as dung for the earth; being unburied, they lay and rotted on the earth, and became dung for it; (see <240802>Jeremiah 8:2), or were trodden under foot, as dung upon the earth; so the Targum, “they became as dung trodden to the earth.”

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