Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Reformed
1871
“he described--wrote the names of the seventy princes or elders. It was from them he had received so inhospitable a treatment.”
The interpretation timeline
Judg 8:14
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Judg 8:14 · Douay-Rheims
“He took a boy of the men of Soccoth: and he asked him the names of the princes and ancients of Soccoth, and he described unto him seventy-seven men.”
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1871
A.D.
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.