And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, that rode on threescore and ten donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Forty sons. At this we need not be surprised, in a country where polygamy prevailed. Priam had 50 sons, and the Turks have often as many.
Colts. This judge succeeded Ahialon, in the year of the world 2872, in the year before Christ 1182, the year after Troy was taken, having endured a ten years' siege, by the treachery of Antenor, and of Æneas, Dictys Dares says the Greeks lost 886,000, and the Trojans 676,000, before the city was taken. (Salien)
