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mount Gilead. What was more natural than that the half tribe of Manasseh on the west side of Jordan should so name a mount in their tribe in compliment to the famous mount on the east side? (Gen_31:21-26; Gen_37:25. Num_32:1, Num_32:40. Deu_3:15. Jos_17:1). Gideon was of that tribe. Probably "the wood of Ephraim", on east side; so named here out of compliment to the half tribe on west side (2Sa_18:6).
twenty = probably 20 + 2,000 = 2,020. Compare Jdg_12:6. 1Sa_6:19. If there remained 10,000, there must have been 10,000 + 2,020 = 12,020; and, as only 300 remained, 9,700 must have gone away at the second testing. Only 1,000 of each tribe = 12,000, sent out to fight in Num_31:4, Num_31:5.