Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Judges 6:32
He called him - i. e. “He was called” Jerubbaal, as being the person against whom it was popularly said that Baal might strive. See margin.
He called him - i. e. “He was called” Jerubbaal, as being the person against whom it was popularly said that Baal might strive. See margin.
Verse Judges 6:32. _HE CALLED HIM JERUBBAAL_] That is, _Let Baal contend_; changed, 2 Samuel 11:21, into _Jerubbesheth, he shall contend against confusion or shame_; thus changing _baal, lord_, into...
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...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ALTAR OF BAAL. We have seen that after the Conquest Yahweh was reverently and innocently called the Baal (Lord) of the land, and that loyal Israelites gave their children Baal n...
JERUBBAAL. Let Baal plead. 1 Samuel 12:11; 2 Samuel 11:21....
_Gideon overthrows the altar of Baal and receives the name Jerub-baal_. This story has no connexion with the preceding narrative Judges 6:11-24; for after Gideon had built the altar Jehovah-shalom (Ju...
_on that day he called him Jerubbaal_ Or with a slight change, _he was called_; in consequence of the foregoing episode the people give Gideon a new name. This is explained to mean -Let Baal contend a...
HE CALLED HIM JERUBBAAL— Houbigant renders this, and perhaps more nearly to the Hebrew, _Nomen fecerunt ei Jerubbaal; On that day they gave him the name of Jerubbaal;_ for he supposes, that his countr...
_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...
_THEREFORE ON THAT DAY HE CALLED HIM JERUBBAAL, SAYING, LET BAAL PLEAD AGAINST HIM, BECAUSE HE HATH THROWN DOWN HIS ALTAR._ Therefore ... he called him - not Joash, but the people, so that it is equi...
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...
Other names compounded with Baal ('lord,' used as equivalent to Jehovah) exist, viz. Ishbaal and Meribbaal. For 'Baal,' 'bosheth' (shame) is at times substituted by later scribes (2 Samuel 11:21). See...
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...
HE CALLED HIM. — Rather, _people called him, he got the name of._ The phrase is impersonal. (_Vocatus est,_ Vulg.; _hiess man ihn,_ Luther.) JERUBBAAL. — The name meant, “Let Baal strive;” but might a...
וַ יִּקְרָא ־לֹ֥ו בַ † יֹּום ־הַ...
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...
BEGINNING REFORM AT HOME Judges 6:28 The good sense of Joash saved his son. “Of what use is Baal to us,” said he, “if he cannot take care of himself?” Gideon had stood the divine test; can you wonder...
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...
CHAPTER VI. Altar. Protestants, "Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar." Septuagint (Alexandrian) says that he then...
Jerub-baal, that is, let Baal plead....
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...
THEREFORE ON THAT DAY HE CALLED HIM JERUBBAAL,.... That is, Joash called his son Gideon by that name; who, some think, is the same with Jerombalus, the priest of the god Jevo, or Jehovah; from whom Sa...
Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. Ver. 32. _He called him Jerubbaal,_] _i.e., _ A man against whom Baal is to s...
_He called his name Jerubbaal_ That is, _Let Baal plead._ The meaning is, either that Joash called Gideon so, Judges 8:1, in remembrance of this noble exploit, and to put a brand on Baal; or that his...
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...
Therefore on that day he, Joash, called him, Gideon, JERUBBAAL ("Let Baal plead his case"), SAYING, LET BAAL PLEAD AGAINST HIM, BECAUSE HE HATH THROWN DOWN HIS ALTAR. This brought the incident to a cl...
GIDEON GRANTED SPECIAL SIGNS...
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...
25-32 See the power of God's grace, that he could raise up a reformer; and the kindness of his grace, that he would raise up a deliverer, out of the family of a leader in idolatry. Gideon must not th...
HE CALLED HIM, i.e. Joash called _Gideon_ so, JUDGES 7:1, in remembrance of this noble exploit, and to put a brand upon Baal....
Judges 6:32 day H3117 called H7121 (H8799) Jerubbaal H3378 saying H559 (H8800) Baal H1168 plead H7378 ...
‘ Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal plead against him, because he has broken down his altar.” ' Joash was a man of remarkable good sense who probably had little faith in...
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...
_Throw down the altar of Baal._ BAAL’S ALTAR DESTROYED 1. Observe God’s command to Gideon. He had been hitherto protesting against the idolatry of his family and country by a life of opposition, inas...
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 ...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:32 Gideon’s new name, JERUBBAAL, meant “Let Baal contend,” echoing Joash’s mockery of those who trusted in Baal (v. Judges 6:31). With this name, Gideon bec
CHAPTER 6—_Judges 6:24_ THE REMOVAL OF THE BARRIER TO DELIVERANCE CRITICAL NOTES.—one thing must be scrupulously gone about, ere a step can be taken to secure the much-needed emancipation of the land...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 6:25 THE SAME NIGHT, etc. The iron was hot; it was time to strike. As regards what follows, there are two ways of understanding the verse. One, that of the A.V; supposes that only o...
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...
1 Samuel 12:11; 2 Samuel 11:21; Hosea 9:10; Jeremiah 11:13...
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...
He called — Joash called Gideon so, Judges 8:29, in remembrance of this noble exploit, and to put a brand upon Baal. Jerub — baal — That is, Let Baal plead. It is a probable conjecture, that that Jero...