That's a fallacy, Mr. Yoda.

Judges 7:1-2
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.


Jerubbaal = "let Baal contend"
1) name given to Gideon by his father when he destroyed the altar of Baal
primative root word,
1) to strive, contend
a) (Qal)
1) to strive
a) physically
b) with words
2) to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue

3) to make complaint
4) to quarrel
b) (Hiphil) to contend against
root word
Baal = "lord"

Moreh = "teacher"
1) the oak tree at Shechem where Abram stopped when he first entered Canaan; close to the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim
2) the hill in the valley of Jezreel at which the Midianites were camped when Gideon attacked them
root
1) (early) rain
2) (TWOT) teacher

Gideon = "hewer"
1) youngest son of Joash of the Abiezrites, fifth judge of Israel who led the Israelites against the Midianites
root
1) to cut, hew, chop, cut down, hew down, hew off, cut off, cut in two, shave off
a) (Qal) to hew, chop in two
b) (Niphal) to be chopped off, be hewn off
c) (Piel) to cut off or down in two, hew off or down in two
d) (Pual) to chop down, hew down

Midianite = see Midian "strife"
1) a member of the tribe of Midian
2) an inhabitant of the land of Midian

En-harod = "spring of Herod"
1) a camping place of Gideon and Israel near the hill of Moreh
primative root
charad

Worm: 'Ello.
Sarah: Did you say hello?
Worm: No, I said 'ello, but that's close enough.

-The Labyrinth

Isaiah - Chapter 14:11

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

Sarah = "noblewoman"
root
1) princess, noblewoman, noble lady


Isaiah 49:23

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

chapt. 14 cont.
Vale of Siddim= "field" or "plain"
1) valley where the Dead Sea is located
Rephaims
1) giants, Rephaim
a) old tribe of giants
Ashtoreth-karnaim
"Ashtoreth of the two horns or peaks"
1) a city in Bashan east of the Jordan given to Manasseh
a) same as 06252
Zuzim = "roving creatures"
1) an ancient people of uncertain origin, perhaps, inhabitants of ancient Ammon east of the Jordan
Spiritually speaking the battle of the Zuzims is of demons. We battle not flesh but principalities and powers and spiritual wickness in high places.
Ham = "hot" or "sunburnt"
1) the place where Chedorlaomer and his allies smote the Zuzim, probably in the territory of the Ammonites, east of the Jordan; site uncertain
Emims = "terrors"
1) ancient inhabitants of Moab
Shaveh Kiriathaim = "plain of the double or two city"
1) the place attacked by Chedorlaomer
En-mishpat = "spring of judgment"
1) a place near southern Palestine coincident or the same place as Kadesh
Kadesh = "holy"
1) a city in the extreme south of Judah
a) same as 'Kedesh' and 'Kadesh-barnea'
Amalekite = see Amalek "people of lapping"
1) descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau
Amorite = "a sayer"
1) one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt
Hazezon-tamar= "dividing the date-palm"
1) an Amorite city
2) a town situated in the desert Judah; probably Engedi
3) maybe the 'Tamar' of Solomon's day
Mamre = "strength" or "fatness"
Eshcol = "cluster"
1) an area of Hebron, the valley of Eshcol
2) an Amorite, the brother of Mamre, dwelling in Hebron
Aner = "boy"
Abram = "exalted father"
1) original name of Abraham
Hebrew = "one from beyond"

They survived fifty years of persecution. Now Baghdad's last Jews have some hope 2003


"But there are some in the neighbourhood who have stood by the last remaining Jews in the country which was the birthplace of Abraham. Last week, when the gangs of looters roaming the streets of Baghdad were at their most feverish, a group of Muslims who live close to the synagogue saw off one group when they tried to break into the walled compound."

The Last Jews of Baghdad 2007

"These are wonderful people." He notes that the Iraqi Jews constituted one of the world's oldest Jewish communities, and that the country contains numerous important Jewish sites, such as the graves of the prophets Ezra and Ezekiel. The flourishing Jewish community in Baghdad also produced one version of Judaism's second-holiest book, the Talmud, in about 550 A.D."

Israel's Messianic Jews Under Attack 2008

"But somebody disliked Ortiz and his beliefs enough to try to kill him and his family. By chance, Ortiz and his wife Leah were gone on March 20th when an unknown person dropped off a bomb disguised as a holiday gift package loaded with candy and chocolates."

1 Corinthians - Chapter 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Habakkuk - Chapter 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Habakkuk = "embrace"

I just read back a few posts and I'm surious what Hev's problem with posting on topic in this thread?

Excellent job here Rod.