SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:13
Y cuando llegó Gedeón, he aquí que un hombre estaba contando a su compañero un sueño, diciendo: He aquí yo soñé un sueño: que veía un pan de cebada que rodaba hasta el campamento de Madián, y llegaba a las tiendas, y las herió de tal manera que cayeron, y las trastornaba de arriba abajo , y las tiendas cayeron.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 7:13
Verse 13. Told a dream] Both the dream and the interpretation were inspired by God for the purpose of increasing the confidence of Gideon, and appalling his enemies.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. And when Gideon was come , etc.] With his servant, near and within hearing the talk and conversation of the outer guards or sentinels: there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow ; his comrade that stood next him, and was upon guard with him; perhaps it was a dream he had dreamed the night before or this selfsame night, being just called up to take his turn in the watch, and so it was fresh upon his mind: and said, behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo ; thus it was as I am going to relate; twice he uses the word “behold”, or “lo”, the dream having rely much struck and impressed his mind, and was what he thought worthy of the attention of his comrade: a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian : barley bread, Pliny says, was the most ancient food; the word for “cake” signifies a “shadow”, and may design the appearance of a barley loaf; or something like one to him appeared in the dream: or a “noise”; the noise of it rolling and tumbling, so that it seemed to the soldier that he heard a noise, as well as saw something he took for a barley loaf. Jarchi observes, that it signifies a cake baked upon coals, and it seemed to this man as if it came smoking hot from the coals, tumbling down an hill, such an one where Gideon and his army were and rolling into the host of Midian, which lay in a valley: and came unto a tent ; or, “the tent f153 ” the largest and most magnificent in the host; and Josephus calls it expressly the king’s tent, and the Arabic version the tent of the generals: and smote it that it fell ; which might justly seem strange, that a barley loaf should come with such a force against a tent, perhaps the largest and strongest in the whole camp, which was fastened with cords to stakes and nails driven into the ground, so as to cause it to fall: yea, it is added, and overturned it, that the tent lay along : turned it topsy-turvy, or turned it “upwards” f155 , as the phrase in the Hebrew text is; it fell with the bottom upwards; it was entirely demolished, that there was no raising and setting of it up again.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-15 - The dream seemed to have little meaning in it; but the interpretatio evidently proved the whole to be from the Lord, and discovered that the name of Gideon had filled the Midianites with terror. Gideon took thi as a sure pledge of success; without delay he worshipped and praise God, and returned with confidence to his three hundred men. Wherever we are, we may speak to God, and worship him. God must have the praise of that which encourages our faith. And his providence must be acknowledged in events, though small and seemingly accidental.
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 גדעון 1439 והנה 2009 אישׁ 376 מספר 5608 לרעהו 7453 חלום 2472 ויאמר 559 הנה 2009 חלום 2472 חלמתי 2492 והנה 2009 צלול 6742 לחם 3899 שׂערים 8184 מתהפך 2015 במחנה 4264 מדין 4080 ויבא 935 עד 5704 האהל 168 ויכהו 5221 ויפל 5307 ויהפכהו 2015 למעלה 4605 ונפל 5307 האהל׃ 168
