Judges 7:23
Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula in Tebbath. But the men of Israel shouting from Nephtali and Aser, and from all Manasses pursued after Madian.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- fugientes usque ad Bethsetta, et crepidinem Abelmehula in Tebbath. Conclamantes autem viri Israël de Nephthali, et Aser, et omni Manasse, persequebantur Madian.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐβόησαν ἀνὴρ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ Νεφθαλεὶ καὶ ἀπὸ Ἀσὴρ καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς Μανασσή, καὶ ἐδίωξαν ὀπίσω Μαδιάμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּצָּעֵ֧ק אִֽישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מִנַּפְתָּלִ֥י וּמִן אָשֵׁ֖ר וּמִן כָּל מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֖וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י מִדְיָֽן
Haydock's commentary
Bethsetta. These cities seem to have been near Bethsan.
And the border. Hebrew, "in Zererath," (Haydock) which Junius takes to be Sarthan.
Abelmehula gave birth to Eliseus, and was 12 miles from Scythopolis. (St. Jerome)
Tebbath occurs no where else. But we read of Thebes, three miles from the last mentioned city, famous for the death of Abimelech, chap. xi. 50.
Men. Probably those who had been sent home the preceding night. Upon hearing of the success which attended Gedeon, all the tribes began to be in motion.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.