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Judges 6:14

And the Lord looked upon him, for He it was that appeared in the form of the Angel, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have not I sent thee, or, Do not I send thee?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 6:14. _GO IN THIS THY MIGHT_] What does the angel mean? He had just stated that _Jehovah was with him_; and he now says, _Go in THIS_ _thy might_, i.e., in the might of Jehovah, who is _w...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD LOOKED UPON HIM - That gracious look conferred immediate strength (compare Ephesians 6:10; 2 Corinthians 12:9; John 20:22;...

  • 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

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THY MIGHT. His might lay in the knowledge of Jehovah's strength (Judges 6:13) and his own weakness....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord_ TURNED TOWARDS _him_ The narrator lets us into the secret, though Gideon has not yet recognized who the Traveller is; LXX here and in Judges 6:16 (cf. LXX Exodus 4:24) reads -the angel of t...

  • 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

    _AND THE LORD LOOKED UPON HIM, AND SAID, GO IN THIS THY MIGHT, AND THOU SHALT SAVE ISRAEL FROM THE HAND OF THE MIDIANITES: HAVE NOT I SENT THEE?_ Go in this thy might ... have not I sent thee? The co...

  • 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

    THE LORD] Here the angel is identified with Jehovah: cp. Judges 13:22. 15, POOR] RV 'the poorest.' Joash, however, can defy the 'city,' Judges 6:31....

  • 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

    THE LORD LOOKED UPON HIM. — Here, as in Genesis 18:13; Genesis 18:17; Genesis 18:20, the angel speaks as the Lord, and it has been hence inferred that this angel was no created angel, but “the angel o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֤פֶן אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר לֵ֚ךְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    And the (e) LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy (f) might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? (e) That is, Christ appearing in visible form....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Lord, Jehova. (Haydock) --- The Chaldean and Septuagint have, "the angel of the Lord," as the best interpreters understand it. (Calmet) --- Upon him, with benevolence and an air of authority, that he...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader not to overlook the expression, the Lord looked upon him. Was there not somewhat particularly striking in this look of the Lord? Surely his grace, his power, his love, his promised fa...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _GIDEON_ ‘And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?’ Judges 6:14 I. GIDEON’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS G...

  • 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

    AND THE LORD LOOKED UPON HIM,.... The same before called the angel of the Lord, and who was no other than Jehovah himself; who looked upon him with great earnestness, and with great delight and pleasu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? Ver. 14. _And the Lord looked upon him._] As well likin...

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

    _The Lord looked upon him_ With a settled, pleasant, and animating countenance, as a testimony of his favour and readiness to help him. _And said, Go in this thy might_ In the power of this commission...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD LOOKED UPON HIM, with a settled and pleasant countenance, as a testimony of his favour to him, and of his readiness to help him. GO IN THIS THY MIGHT; or, _go now_, or _at this_ time, _in thy...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 6:14 LORD H3068 turned H6437 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) Go H3212 (H8798) might H3581 save...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And Yahweh looked on him and said, “Go in this your might and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” ' The Angel now revealed Who He was. It was Yahweh Himself Who looked on Him...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • 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 14:10; 1 Chronicles 14:9; 1 Samuel 12:11; Hebrews 11:32;...

  • 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

    Looked — With a settled and pleasant countenance, as a testimony of his favour, and readiness to help him. Go — Or, go now, in thy might: in the strength which thou hast already received, and dost now...

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