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Judges 12:14

Judges 12:14

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And he had forty sons, and thirty nephews,.... 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 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 the city of Troy was destroyed; so Eusebius , who calls this judge Labdon, though he elsewhere places it in the times of Eli;See Gill on "".

Juchasin, ut supra. (fol. 136. 1.) Evangel. Praepar. l. 10. c. 11. p. 484. Evangel. Praepar. l. 10. c. 11. p.

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