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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Judges 6:34

Him. He first calls his relations, and then the neighbouring tribes, to march against the enemy. He had before declared God's orders, and was recognized as judge and deliverer of Israel; so that no one objects to his exercising this act of sovereignty.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 6:34. _THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON_] He was endued with preternatural courage and wisdom....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON - See the margin. The word contains a striking thought. It is different from that used in the case of Othniel Judges 3:10, Jephthah Judges 11:29, and Samson Jud...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MIDIANITE RAID, AND THE SIGN OF THE FLEECE. The broad and deep Vale of Jezreel, lying between Gilboa and Moreh, leads up from Jordan to the Great Plain. Judges 6:34. Gideon now felt the Divine imp...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9. CAME UPON. clothed (1 Chronicles 12:18; 2 Chronicles 24:20). Hebrew. _labash,_ to put on so as to fill. GATHERED: gathered by proclamation....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The Midianite invasion; the sign of the fleece_ 33 _.Then all the Midianites … assembled themselves_ Better, _Now all the M.… had assembled themselves_. This verse may be connected with Judges 6:7_;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the spirit of the Lord came upon_ lit. -put on as a garment," i.e. _took possession of Gideon_; cf. 1 Chronicles 12:18; 2 Chronicles 24:20. The verb is used in Syriac with the same metaphorical sense...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON— Or, according to the Hebrew and the LXX, _the spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon._ He was replenished with courage and all other qualities necessary for a great...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON, AND HE BLEW A TRUMPET; AND ABI-EZER WAS GATHERED AFTER HIM._ The Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon. Called in this sudden emergency into the public ser...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Judges 13:25. CAME UPON] lit. 'clothed itself with Gideon.' In the strength of this inspiration he assembles not only his own clan and fellow-tribesmen, but the men of neighbouring tribes, all of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CAME UPON GIDEON. — Literally, _clothed Gideon._ See Judges 3:10 (Othniel); Judges 11:29 (Jephthah); Judges 13:25 (Samson). This forcible figure is found also in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֔ה לָבְשָׁ֖ה אֶת ־גִּדְעֹ֑ון ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    "THE PEOPLE ARE YET TOO MANY" Judges 6:33; Judges 7:1 ANOTHER day of hope and energy has dawned. One hillside at least rises sunlit out of darkness with the altar of Jehovah on its summit and holier...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and (o) Abiezer was gathered after him. (o) The family of Abiezer, of which he was....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to take notice of the expression, that the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Gideon. Yes! it is that holy and eternal God, who worketh by his instruments through all the world of Providence...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON GIDEON,.... Not the spirit of prophecy, as Maimonides x, who calls this spirit the first degree of prophecy, but a spirit of fortitude and courage, as the Targum;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him. Ver. 34. _But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon._] Who had not his name for nought: for i...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then all the Midianites were gathered together_, &c. As was their usual custom every year, that they might waste the country. _And pitched in the valley of Jezreel_ Not Jezreel in Judah, but another...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, clothing him like a garment or a coat of mail, AND HE BLEW A TRUMPET, to summon Israel against their enemies; AND ABIEZER, his own section of the tribe of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GIDEON GRANTED SPECIAL SIGNS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAME UPON: _ Heb._ clothed WAS GATHERED AFTER HIM: _ Heb._ was called after him...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    33-40 These signs are truly miraculous, and very significant. Gideon and his men were going to fight the Midianites; could God distinguish between a small fleece of Israel, and the vast floor of Midi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CAME UPON GIDEON, inspiring him with extraordinary wisdom, and courage, and zeal, to vindicate God's honour and his country's liberty. Compare 1 CHRONICLES 12:18 2 CHRONICLES 24:20. ABI-EZER, i.e. the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 6:34 Spirit H7307 LORD H3068 came H3847 (H8804) Gideon H1439 blew H8628 (H8799) trumpet H7782 Abiezrites...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ But the Spirit of Yahweh clothed Himself with Gideon, and he blew a trumpet (of ram's horn) and Abiezer was gathered together after him.' Yahweh now prepared to go into battle on behalf of Israel,...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He blew a trumpet, and Abi-ezer was gathered after him._ THE MUSTER And what did he do? He seized a trumpet and blew a blast so loud that it startled the slumbering echoes of the hills, and stirred...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:34 SPIRIT OF THE LORD CLOTHED. See 1 Chronicles 12:18;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CHAPTER 6—_Judges 6:33_ PREPARATIONS FOR THE CONFLICT CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 6:33. THEN ALL THE MIDIANITES AND THE AMALEKITES.] As to the Amalekites, see Judges 6:3, and ch....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 6:33 THE MIDIANITES, etc. See Judges 6:3, note. THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. Rather, _the_ _plain_,_ _"the great plain of Esdraelon," as the Book of Judith styles it (Judith 1:8; see...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 12:18; 1 Corinthians 12:8; 1 Samuel 10:6; 1 Samuel 11:6;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The spirit came — Inspiring him with extraordinary wisdom, and courage, and zeal to vindicate God's honour, and his country's liberty. The Hebrew is, The Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon; clothed him...

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