King James Version
Judges 7:9 in the King James Version says “And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivere...” — study this verse from Judges chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.”
Judges 7:9 · KJV
And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. armed men: or, ranks by five
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“And it came to pass the same night”
H3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“that the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“unto him Arise”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“get thee down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“unto the host”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for I have delivered”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“it into thine hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
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