10<\/strong>. their encampments<\/em> ] A word specially used to denote the circular encampment of a nomad tribe: cf. Gen 25:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n Goodly castles – <\/B>Rather, both here and in Gen 25:16<\/span>, hamlets. The word is derived from a word <\/span> tur<\/I>,) signifying a row or range (compare <\/span>Eze 46:23<\/span><\/span>); and probably indicates those collections of rude dwellings, made of stones piled one on another and covered with tent-cloths, which are used by the Arabs to this day; and which are frequently mentioned as douars in narratives of the French campaigns in Algeria. These dwellings would be formed usually in a circle. See the word Hazeroth, in Num 11:35<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Partly, to blot out the name and memory of so lewd and vile a people; partly, lest any of the Israelites should be tempted to settle there, and so be discouraged in their progress to Canaan; and partly, lest they should be possessed by other people who might prove as bad neighbours to them as these would have been. <\/P> <\/p>\n And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt<\/strong>, c. So far as they went into the country, which, perhaps, might not be the whole land of Midian:<\/p>\n and all their goodly castles with fire<\/strong> which were either the palaces of their princes and nobles, or such like great personages; or they were fortified places, for the security of their cities and country: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan interpret them of their houses of worship, their temples, and their altars.<\/p>\n (10) All their cities wherein they dwelt.<\/strong>Better, all their cities in their dwelling-places. <\/em>This expression is explained by a reference to Jos. 13:21<\/span>, from which it appears that the five kings or chiefs of the Midianites who are mentioned in Num. 5:8<\/span> dwelt in the territory which Sihon, king of the Amorites, had wrested from the Moabites. The Midianites were a nomad people, and were not likely to have built cities for themselves.<\/p>\n 10<\/strong>. <\/strong> Cities wherein they dwelt <\/strong> Literally, towns in their dwellings. <\/em> These were not built by the Midianites a nomad race, but probably by the Moabites who had been dispossessed by the Amorites under Sihon. This country was allotted to Reuben. Jos 13:15-23<\/span>. <\/p>\n Goodly castles <\/strong> Not modern castles, but “encampments,” (R.V.,) rude dwellings made of stone walls surmounted by a canvass or skin covering. These, arranged in a circle, constituted a pastoral hamlet such as are found today among the Arabs and in Algeria.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Num 31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 10. And they burnt all their cities.<\/strong> ] For the same reason, perhaps, that our Henry VIII demolished so many monasteries, saying, Corvorum nidos esse penitus disturbandos, ne iterunt ad cohibitandum convolent,<\/em> That the crows’ nests were to be utterly, destroyed, lest they should make further use of them again another time. a<\/em> Or rather, lest sloth or covetousness should draw any of the Israelites to hide themselves in these nests, and neglect the Promised Land. See Jdg 6:1<\/span> . <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Diruendi sunt etiam ipsi ciconiarum nidi ne redeant,<\/em> – said Zisca Lavat. in Deuter. Sander. Schism. Anglic., <\/em> lib. i.<\/p>\n burnt = burnt up, or down. Hebrew. saraph. App-43. The same judgment is in store for spiritual fornication. Rev 17:16; Rev 18:8. <\/p>\n castles = fortified places. <\/p>\n Jos 6:24, 1Sa 30:1, 1Ki 9:16, Isa 1:7, Rev 18:8 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ch 6:54 – castles<\/p>\n And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. 10. their encampments ] A word specially used to denote the circular encampment of a nomad tribe: cf. Gen 25:16. 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