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Verse Judges 6:16. _THOU SHALT SMITE THE MIDIANITES AS ONE MAN._] Thou
shalt as surely conquer _all their host_ as if thou hadst but _one_
_man_ to contend with; or, Thou shalt destroy them to a man....
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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...
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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...
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I WILL BE WITH THEE. Compare Exodus 3:12.Isaiah 7:14.Matthew 1:23....
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_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...
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_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, OH MY LORD, WHEREWITH SHALL I SAVE ISRAEL?
BEHOLD, MY FAMILY IS POOR IN MANASSEH, AND I AM THE LEAST IN MY
FATHER'S HOUSE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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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...
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I WILL BE WITH THEE. — See Exodus 3:12; Joshua 1:5.
SMITE THE MIDIANITES AS ONE MAN. — See Chap’
19 1:8; Numbers 14:15....
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י
אֶהְיֶ֖ה עִ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Reader! do not overlook the gracious condescension of Jesus to the
fears and doubts of his people, while you are reading this verse. It
is thus, depend upon it, he deals with them all. Matthew 12:20....
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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...
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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...
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AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, SURELY I WILL BE WITH THEE,.... The Targum
is,
"my Word shall be thy help,''
which was sufficient to answer all objections taken from his meanness,
unworthiness, and weak...
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And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt
smite the Midianites as one man.
Ver. 16. _Surely I will be with thee._] I who, of myself, am a whole
army. Isa 52:12
_ As one...
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_Thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man_ As easily as if they were
all but one man. _Show me a sign_ This Gideon desired, that he might
be sure the commission was divine, and that God, who called...
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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...
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THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARS TO GIDEON...
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And the Lord said unto him, in taking away this objection, SURELY I
WILL BE WITH THEE, AND THOU SHALT SMITE THE MIDIANITES AS ONE MAN;
their entire host would fall before him as though it consisted of...
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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...
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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...
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As easily as if they were all but one man; or, thou shalt destroy them
to a man, as he did, JUD 8....
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Judges 6:16 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) defeat H5221 (H8689)
Midianites H4080 one H259 man H376...
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‘ And Yahweh said to him, “I will surely be with you, and you will
smite the Midianites as one man.” '
God's reply was that Gideon should consider the odds. He would be
there with him. Thus it would b...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Acts 11:21; Exodus 3:12; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 41:14; Joshua 1:5;...
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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...
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As one man — As easily, as if they were all but one man....