Verse Judges 6:11. _THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD_] The prophet came to teach and exhort, the angel comes to confirm the word of the prophet, to call and commission him who was intended to be their...
AN OAK - “The oak,” indicating it as a well-known tree, still standing in the writer’s days. There was another Ophrah in Benjamin Joshua 18:23. This Ophrah was in Manasseh, and was the village of Joas...
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...
AN OAK. the oak, as being well known. JOASH. Jehovah gave. GIDEON. cutter down. BY THE WINEPRESS. in the winepress. Shows the straits of the people. Compare verses: Judges 6:2. Threshing-floor expo...
_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...
THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD, &C.— It is very evident from the context, that this _Angel of the Lord_ was the same great _Messenger of the Covenant,_ the JEHOVAH, of whose appearance we have so oft...
_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 THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SAT UNDER AN OAK WHICH WAS IN OPHRAH, THAT PERTAINED UNTO JOASH THE ABI-EZRITE: AND HIS SON GIDEON THRESHED WHEAT BY THE WINEPRESS, TO HIDE IT FROM THE MIDIAN...
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...
ANGEL] see on Judges 2:1. OPHRAH] in Judges 6:24 'Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.' Presumably, this Ophrah is near Shechem. Abi-ezer is a division of Manasseh (Joshua 17:2). WHEAT BY THE WINEPRESS] RV 'in'...
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...
THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD. — It is obviously absurd to suppose, as some have done, that a prophet is intended, like the one in Judges 6:8. There the word is _Nabi,_ here it is _Maleak-Jehovah,_...
וַ יָּבֹ֞א מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֗ה וַ יֵּ֨שֶׁב֙ תַּ
THE DESERT HORDES; AND THE MAN AT OPHRAH Judges 6:1 JABIN king of Canaan defeated and his nine hundred chariots turned into ploughshares, we might expect Israel to make at last a start in its true ca...
A FARMER CALLED TO BE DELIVERER Judges 6:7 God is not content with sending a prophet to condemn our sins; He commissions an angel to bring help. Surely there is truth in the old belief that the Angel...
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...
Angel; Michael. (Menochius) --- Some think it was the prophet who had addressed the people, or Phinees, according to the Rabbins. See St. Augustine, q. 31. Others believe it was the Son of God, who ta...
I cannot hesitate to believe, that this was that same Almighty angel who, all along from creation, at various times manifested himself to his people as occasion required, and as it pleased him. I say...
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 THERE CAME AN ANGEL OF THE LORD,.... This was not the prophet before mentioned, as Ben Gersom thinks, but an angel of God, as expressed, and not a created one, but the Angel of Jehovah's presence,...
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 winepress, to hide [it] from the Mi...
_And there came an angel of the Lord_ It is probable that many of the Israelites laid the prophet's message to heart, and began to repent and reform, and that therefore God had compassion upon them, a...
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...
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARS TO GIDEON...
And there came an Angel of the Lord, the Angel in the extraordinary sense of the term, the Son of God, AND SAT UNDER AN OAK WHICH WAS IN OPHRAH, THAT PERTAINED UNTO JOASH, THE ABIEZRITE, in the territ...
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...
TO HIDE IT: _ Gr._ to cause it to fly...
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...
IN OPHRAH, to wit, in Manasseh; for there was another Ophrah in Benjamin, JOSHUA 18:23. _The Abi-ezrite_; of the posterity of Abi-ezer; of whom see JOSHUA 17:2 1 CHRONICLES 7:18. See...
Judges 6:11 Angel H4397 LORD H3068 came H935 (H8799) sat H3427 (H8799) tree H424 Ophrah H6084 Joash...
THE CALL OF GIDEON AND HIS RESPONSE (JUDGES 6:11). Judges 6:11 ‘ And the Angel of Yahweh came, and stationed Himself under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite. And hi...
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...
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 48:16; Hebrews 11:32; Isaiah 63:9; Joshua 17:2; Joshua 18:23;...
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...
In Ophrah — In Manasseh: there was another Ophrah in Benjamin, Joshua 18:23. The Abi — ezrite — Of the posterity of Abiezer. Threshed — Not with oxen, as the manner was, Deuteronomy 25:4, but with a s...