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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Judges 8:16

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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the elders: Jdg 8:7; Pro 10:13, Pro 19:29; Ezr 2:6 thorns: Mic 7:4 taught: Heb. made to know, Instead of wyyoda, Houbigant, Lev. Clerc, and others read wyyadosh, "and he tore or threshed;" and this is not only agreeable to what Gideon threatened ( Jdg 8:7), but is supported by the LXX Vulgate, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. The Hebrew Text might easily have been corrupted simply by the change of שׁ, shin, into ע, ayin, letters very similar to each other. Judges 8:17
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