(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hands of Madian,

for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Mid'ian;

because my father hath fought for you, and doth cast away his life from him, and deliver you from the hand of Midian;

(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;

and who gave his life to dangers, so that he might rescue you from the hand of Midian,

For my father fought for you,.... In the valley of Jezreel, and at Karkor, where with three hundred men he routed and destroyed an army of 135,000:
and adventured his life far: which, according to our version, may seem to have respect to his going over Jordan, and following the Midianites, fleeing into their country, and fighting them at Karkor, at a great distance from his native place; but the phrase in the original text is, "he cast away his life afar" (e), made no account of it, exposed it to the greatest danger; or, as the Targum,"he delivered his life as it were to destruction:"
and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; from the oppression and bondage of the Midianites, under which they had laboured seven years.
(e) "et projecit animam suam a louge", Pagninus; "vel eminus", Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.