Judges 8:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

Judges 8:19 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-21)

Judgment began at the house of God, in the just correction of the men of Succoth and Penuel, who were Israelites, but it did not end there. The kings of Midian, when they had served to demonstrate Gideon’s victories, and grace his triumphs, must now be reckoned with. 1. They are indicted for the murder of Gideon’s brethren some time ago at Mount Tabor. When the children of Israel, for fear of the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother--That is, uterine brothers; but, in all countries where polygamy prevails, “the son of my mother” implies a closeness of relationship and a warmth of affection never awakened by the looser term, “brother.”