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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Judges 6:12

Verse Judges 6:12. The Lord is with thee] "The WORD of the Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour." - Targum. It appears that Gideon had proved himself, on former occasions, to be a man of courage anti personal prowess; and this would naturally excite the confidence of his countrymen. God chooses for his work those instruments which, in the course of his operations in nature and providence, he has qualified for his purpose. The instruments thus chosen are generally unlikely, but they will be ever found the best qualified for the Divine employment.

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See also Judges 6:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOR - Known to God to be such, though as yet not known to be such either by himself or his countrymen (compare Luke 1:28, Luke 1:30)....

  • 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

    ANGEL OF THE LORD. angel of Jehovah: i.e. the Covenant God "with" His servant (Gideon). Compare Judges 6:20. angel of Elohim, the Creator working. miracle for His creature. MIGHTY MAN. Hebrew. _gibbo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The Lord is with thee_ Cf. Judges 6:16: an assurance given to chosen instruments of God's purpose, such as Jacob, Genesis 28:15, Moses, Exodus 3:12, Joshua, Joshua 1

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD IS WITH THEE— The Targum translates it, _the word of the Lord is thy help;_ which shews, that the ancient Jews looked upon this Angel as the LORD himself, and this is confi...

  • 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 ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD IS WITH THEE, THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • 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...

  • 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 IS WITH THEE, THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR. — Three words in the Hebrew: _Jehovah immekâ, Gibbor._ It was once a salutation and a blessing. (Comp. Joshua 1:5; Luke 1:28). The address seems to sh...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּרָ֥א אֵלָ֖יו מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֑ה וַ יֹּ֣א

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Is. We should naturally translate, be with thee, if the answer of Gedeon did not shew (Calmet) that it is to be taken as an assertion, that the Lord was already reconciled to Israel, and had made cho...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat very striking in this short conversation; short as it is, it conveys much more than the mere words express. If this angel was, as the whole sense of the passage seems to intimate, th...

  • 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

    AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM,.... He stayed some time under the oak, and Gideon being busy in threshing, took no notice of him wherefore he came and stood before him, in his sight: AND...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valour. Ver. 12. _And the angel appeared unto him._] As he was threshing. So God called Mos...

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

    _The Lord is with thee_ That is, to guide and strengthen thee, to animate and support thee. He is with thee, giving thee a commission to go out against the enemies of Israel, communicating to thee all...

  • 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

    And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him, Gideon, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD IS WITH THEE, THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOR. The reference was not only to his physical strength, but to the determination a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARS TO GIDEON...

  • 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

    i.e. Will assist thee against thine and mine enemies. THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR; to whom I have given strength and courage for this end....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 6:12 Angel H4397 LORD H3068 appeared H7200 (H8735) said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 mighty H1368 valor...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And the Angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valour.” ' Gideon may well have been thinking of His people's troubles, and scheming as to what he co...

  • 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 children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    GIDEON THE BRAVE The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. Judges 6:12. I wonder how many of you keep a picture gallery of heroes? I don't mean a real gallery of pictures, but one that exists...

  • 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

    Acts 18:10; Acts 18:9; Exodus 3:12; Joshua 1:5; Joshua 1:9;...

  • 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

    Is with thee — That is, will assist thee against thine enemies. Man of valour — To whom I have given strength and courage for this end....

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