Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 6:19
An ephah — The choicest part of a whole ephah; as also he brought to him the best part of a kid dressed; for a whole ephah, and a whole kid had been superfluous, and improper to provide for one man.
An ephah — The choicest part of a whole ephah; as also he brought to him the best part of a kid dressed; for a whole ephah, and a whole kid had been superfluous, and improper to provide for one man.
Verse Judges 6:19. _MADE READY A KID - THE FLESH HE PUT IN A BASKET, AND HE_ _PUT THE BROTH IN A POT_] The manner in which the Arabs entertain strangers will cast light on this verse. Dr. Shaw observ...
UNLEAVENED CAKES - As being much more quickly baked (compare Genesis 19:3) (and as connected with the meat offering). An ephah, containing 3 measures, was the quantity of flour commonly used at one ba...
4. FOURTH DECLENSION: UNDER MIDIAN AND GIDEON, TOLA AND JAIR CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Israel's suffering from Midian (Judges 6:1)_ 2. Their repentance and the divine answer (Judges 6:7) 3. Gideon, the deliv...
JUDGES 6:11. On the angel of Yahweh see Judges 2:1; Genesis 16:7 *. For oak read terebinth. While the primitive Semites were animists, the Israelites came to associate Yahweh's own presence with sacre...
KID. kid of the goats. UNLEAVENED. For offering: quickly made. EPHAH. See App-51. A BASKET. the tray. Hebrew. _sal,_ always connected with royalty, or sacrifice. A POT. the pot....
_The call of Gideon_. Sequel of 2 6a 11. _the angel of the Lord_ i.e. Jehovah Himself in manifestation; see on Judges 2:1. Closely parallel are the appearances in Judges 13:3-23 and Genesis 18 J; the...
_a kid_ Cf. Judges 13:15; Judges 13:19 and Genesis 18:7 (a calf). _An ephah_was approximately equivalent to our bushel; in Genesis 18:6 Abraham order
AND GIDEON—MADE READY, &C.— All _roasted meat_ is a delicacy among the Arabs, and rarely eaten by them. _Stewed_ meat likewise is only to be met with at their feasts and great tables, and is consequen...
_The Call of Giedon Judges 6:11-35_ 11 And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the...
_AND GIDEON WENT IN, AND MADE READY A KID, AND UNLEAVENED CAKES OF AN EPHAH OF FLOUR: THE FLESH HE PUT IN A BASKET, AND HE PUT THE BROTH IN A POT, AND BROUGHT IT OUT UNTO HIM UNDER THE OAK, AND PRESEN...
GIDEON AND THE MIDIANITES The story of Gideon, which runs from Judges 6:1 to Judges 8:33, is more detailed than that of Deborah and Barak; and, from the details, it would appear that different traditi...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 The stories about Gideon and his son, Abimelech are the most important ones in the book. John J. Davies says, ‘Gideon is the ideal judge like Mose...
UNLEAVENED CAKES. — Because these were most quickly made, as by Lot for the angels, and by the Witch of Endor for Saul (Genesis 19:3; 1 Samuel 28:24). OF AN EPHAH OF FLOUR. — About 22½ lbs. A homer wo...
וְ גִדְעֹ֣ון בָּ֗א וַ יַּ֤עַשׂ גְּדִֽי ־עִזִּ
GIDEON, ICONOCLAST AND REFORMER Judges 6:15 "The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour":-so has the prophetic salutation come to the young man at the threshing floor of Ophrah. It is a persona...
FACE TO FACE WITH THE ANGEL OF JEHOVAH Judges 6:19 Gideon realized the momentous character of that interview. He only wanted to be sure that it was no dream or fancy, and so hence the proposal of the...
After the passing of these forty years, sin again brought punishment. The people passed under the oppression of Midian. It was oppression of the severest kind and lasted for seven years. A terrible pi...
When Israel again did evil in the sight of God, he delivered them into the hands of the Midianites, who were descendants of Abraham and Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2). They were allied in the oppression of...
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an (h) ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and p...
_Measure. Hebrew, "epha," containing ten gomors, each of which was sufficient for the daily maintenance of a man; so that Gedeon brought as much as would have sufficed for ten men. Abraham presented n...
Observe, Gideon presented it to the angel! Wherefore? Did he know indeed that our Jesus was, as well as now is, a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec? Psalms 110:4; Hebrews 7:15....
The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
But again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and He delivered them into the hand of Midian. And the children of Israel cried again unto Jehovah. God reveals the cause of their di...
AND GIDEON WENT IN,.... Into his own house, or his father's: AND MADE READY A KID; boiled it, as appears by the broth he brought, at least part of it was so dressed; and perhaps it was only some part...
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and prese...
_Until I bring forth my present_ A repast for the angel whom he thought to be a man; _and set it before thee_ That thou mayest eat and refresh thyself. _An ephah of flour_ The choicest part of a whole...
1 The Israelites for their sinne are oppressed by Midian. 8 A prophet rebuketh them. 11 An Angel sendeth Gideon for their deliuerance. 17 Gideons Present is consumed with fire. 24 Gideon destroyet...
And Gideon went in and made ready a kid, preparing it for food, AND UNLEAVENED CAKES OF AN EPHOD OF FLOUR (almost twenty-six quarts). THE FLESH HE PUT IN A BASKET, AND HE PUT THE BROTH IN A POT, AND B...
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARS TO GIDEON...
THE OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN (vv.1-10) However, Israel again repeated the evil of departing from the Lord. This time the Lord used Midian to put them under a yoke of oppression which lasted seven years...
A KID: _ Heb._ a kid of the goats...
11-24 Gideon was a man of a brave, active spirit, yet in obscurity through the times: he is here stirred up to undertake something great. It was very sure that the Lord was with him, when his Angel w...
OF AN EPHAH OF FLOUR, to wit, out of the choicest part of a whole ephah; as also he brought to him the best part of a kid dressed; for a whole ephah and a whole kid had been very superfluous, and impr...
Judges 6:19 Gideon H1439 in H935 (H8804) prepared H6213 (H8799) young H5795 goat H1423 bread H4682 ephah...
‘ And Gideon went in and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour. The flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak and presented...
Judges 6-8 In the first words of Gideon we find the key to his character. (1) He was a man who felt deeply the degradation of his people. He could not enjoy his own harvest while the Midianites were r...
CONTENTS: More apostasy in Israel. Call of Gideon. CHARACTERS: God, Angel of Jehovah (Jesus), Holy Spirit, Gideon, prophet, Joash. CONCLUSION: In times of apostasy, God often calls His mightiest ser...
Judges 6:1. _The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian,_ the descendants of Abraham's fourth son by Keturah, who oppressed them for seven years. Genesis 25:2. Judges 6:3. _The children of the ea...
_There came an Angel of the Lord _. .. _ Gideon threshed wheat._ GIDEON’S ANGELIC VISITOR I. That a man, when actively and unostentatiously doing his duty, is best fitted for the reception of heaven...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:1__ The fifth judge was Gideon, who fought the Midianites twice. The first time he followed God’s instructions (Judges 7:1); the second time he did not ...
CHAPTER 6.—_Judges 6:11_ THE UNSEEN FRIEND CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 6:11. THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD.] Rather, “_the angel of the Lord came_.” The reference being to one particular person known a...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 6:11 AN ANGEL, etc. Rather, the _angel of the Lord_,_ _otherwise called "the angel of his presence" (Isaiah 63:9). In Judges 6:14,...
So again the rest for forty days but then in chapter six, AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years. And the han...
Genesis 18:6; Judges 13:15; Leviticus 2:4...
GIDEON'S CALL TO CONQUEST Judges 6:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There come times of special exigencies when God speaks to special men calling them to special service. Such a call came to Gideon, and ther...