SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:6
Y fue el número de los que lamieron las aguas, llegándola con la mano a la boca, trescientos varones; y todo el resto del pueblo se dobló sobre sus rodillas para beber las aguas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 7:6
Verse 6. The number of them that lapped] From this account it appears that some of the people went down on their knees, and putting their mouths to the water, sucked up what they needed; the others stooped down, and taking up water in the hollow of their hands, applied it to their mouth.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth , etc.] That is, that took up water in the hollow of their hands, which they lifted up to their mouths, and so lapped it, as the Egyptians about the Nile are said to do, who drank not out of pots and cups, but used their hands to drink with: were three hundred men ; only such a number out of 10,000: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water; even 9,700; and it was the custom of some nations, as the Ichthyophagy, or fish eaters, to cast themselves with their face to the ground, and drink after the manner of oxen f148 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - God provides that the praise of victory may be wholly to himself, by appointing only three hundred men to be employed. Activity and prudenc go with dependence upon God for help in our lawful undertakings. When the Lord sees that men would overlook him, and through unbelief, woul shrink from perilous services, or that through pride they would vaun themselves against him, he will set them aside, and do his work by other instruments. Pretences will be found by many, for deserting the cause and escaping the cross. But though a religious society may thu be made fewer in numbers, yet it will gain as to purity, and may expec an increased blessing from the Lord. God chooses to employ such as ar not only well affected, but zealously affected in a good thing. The grudged not at the liberty of the others who were dismissed. In doin the duties required by God, we must not regard the forwardness of backwardness of others, nor what they do, but what God looks for at ou hands. He is a rare person who can endure that others should excel him in gifts or blessings, or in liberty; so that we may say, it is by the special grace of God that we regard what God says to us, and not loo to men what they do.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 מספר 4557 המלקקים 3952 בידם 3027 אל 413 פיהם 6310 שׁלשׁ 7969 מאות 3967 אישׁ 376 וכל 3605 יתר 3499 העם 5971 כרעו 3766 על 5921 ברכיהם 1290 לשׁתות 8354 מים׃ 4325
