SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:10
Y Zeba y Zalmuna estaban en Carcor, y con ellos su ejército como de quince mil hombres , todos los que habían quedado de todo el ejército de los orientales; y los muertos habían sido ciento veinte mil hombres que sacaban espada.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 8:10
Verse 10. Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor] If this were a place, it is nowhere else mentioned in Scripture. Some contend that rqrq karkor signifies rest; and thus the Vulgate understood it: Zebah and Zalmunna requiescebant, rested, with all their army. And this seems the most likely, for it is said, ver. 11, that Gideon smote the host, for the host was secure.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor . etc.] Jerom under this word says, there was in his time a castle called Carcuria, a day’s journey from Petra, which was the metropolis of Idumea; but whether the same with this is not clear: and their host with them, about fifteen thousand men ; to which number Gideon and his three hundred men were very unequal; and yet, faint and weary as they were, closely pursued them, attacked and conquered them. Josephus very wrongly makes this number to be about 18,000: all that were left of the hosts of the children of the east ; the Arabians, who with the Amalekites joined the Midianites in this expedition; and perhaps the remainder of the army chiefly consisted of Arabians, the others having mostly suffered in the valley of Jezreel, and at the fords of Jordan: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword ; besides infirm men, women, and children, which may reasonably be supposed; so that this host consisted of 135,000 fighting men.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-12 - Gideon's men were faint, yet pursuing; fatigued with what they ha done, yet eager to do more against their enemies. It is many a time the true Christian's case, fainting, and yet pursuing. The world knows but little of the persevering and successful struggle the real believe maintains with his sinful heart. But he betakes himself to that Divin strength, in the faith of which he began his conflict, and by the supply of which alone he can finish it in triumph.
Original Hebrew
וזבח 2078 וצלמנע 6759 בקרקר 7174 ומחניהם 4264 עמם 5973 כחמשׁת 2568 עשׂר 6240 אלף 505 כל 3605 הנותרים 3498 מכל 3605 מחנה 4264 בני 1121 קדם 6924 והנפלים 5307 מאה 3967 ועשׂרים 6242 אלף 505 אישׁ 376 שׁלף 8025 חרב׃ 2719
