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A similar use of the name Amorite, instead of the more usual name
Canaanite, occurs in Joshua 24:15, Joshua 24:18. Perhaps a special
reason may be found for the use of Amorite, if the prophet was
addr...
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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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A second writer (probably E) introduces a prophet who reproves Israel
for disloyalty and ingratitude to Yahweh their God. The brief speech
is a torso. Reflective rather than prophetic, it opens impres...
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Gideon of Manasseh and Abimelech Judges 6:1 to Judges 9:57
_Midian Oppresses Israel Judges 6:1-10_
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the
Lord delivered them into the h...
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_AND I DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND OUT OF THE
HAND OF ALL THAT OPPRESSED YOU, AND DRAVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU,
AND GAVE YOU THEIR LAND;_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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THE GODS OF THE AMORITES. — See Joshua 24:15; 1 Kings 21:26. As the
Amorites seem to have been the highlanders of Palestine, and the most
powerful of all the Canaanitish tribes, their name is sometime...
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וָ אֹמְרָ֣ה לָכֶ֗ם אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה
אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם...
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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...
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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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_Fear not. Idols can do you no hurt, if you continue faithful to me.
(Haydock) --- Shew them no respect or worship. The fear of Isaac means
the God (Calmet) whom Isaac worshipped, Genesis xxxi. 42. Id...
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Observe how by the ministry of a prophet, the Lord makes way for the
salvation of his people. And is not God doing so now? Doth he not by
the word of the gospel call upon sinners to return? Is he not...
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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 I SAID UNTO YOU, I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, c:] The covenant God of
them and their fathers, and they ought not to have owned and
acknowledged any other besides him:
FEAR NOT THE GODS OF THE AMORITES...
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And I said unto you, I [am] the LORD your God; fear not the gods of
the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
Ver. 10. _Fear not the gods._] As true religion hath fear of...
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_Ye have not obeyed my voice_ And therefore all these evils are come
upon you. This is said to bring them to repentance. And our repentance
is then genuine when the sinfulness of sin, as disobedience...
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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 OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN...
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and I said unto you, I am the Lord, your God; fear not the gods of the
Amorites, the name here standing for the Canaanitish nations in
general, IN WHOSE LAND YE DWELL; BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE....
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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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7-10 They cried to God for a deliverer, and he sent them a prophet to
teach them. When God furnishes a land with faithful ministers, it is a
token that he has mercy in store for it. He charges them wi...
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FEAR NOT, i.e. do not serve or worship them....
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Judges 6:10 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 fear H3372 (H8799)
gods H430 Amorites H567 land...
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YAHWEH SENDS HIS PROPHET (JUDGES 6:7).
Judges 6:7 a
‘And so it happened that when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh
because of Midian, that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of
Israel, and...
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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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_Because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens
_. .. _ and caves and strongholds._
DIVINE PUNISHMENT THROUGH NATURAL MEANS
Thus God gets at men through various means. The Midian...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 6:7 The message of the unnamed PROPHET
represents the first time God rebuked the people when they called upon
him.
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_ISRAEL’S RELAPSE INTO SIN, AND THEIR OPPRESSION BY THE MIDIANITES.
Judges 6:1_
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 6:1. DID EVIL, etc.] Not _continued_ to do
evil, though that is implied (pp. 158, 186). Deborah...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 6:1
MIDIAN. In Numbers 22:7 we read of the Midianites as allied with the
Moabites in their hostility to the children of Israel, and we find
them willing agents of Balaam s iniquitou...
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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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2 Kings 17:33; 2 Kings 17:35; Exodus 20:2; Exodus 20:3; Hebrews 5:9;...
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Not obeyed my voice — He intends to bring them to repentance. And
our repentance is then genuine, when he sinfulness of sin, as
disobedience to God, is that in it which we chiefly lament....