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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Judges 6:15

This objection, if greater had not arisen in Gideon's mind after, would not have carried with it an evidence of little faith, for it bespoke great humbleness of soul, and a becoming spirit. It is a promise never to be forgotten, that the Lord resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. James 4:6.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 6:15. _WHEREWITH SHALL I SAVE ISRAEL?_] I have neither men nor money. _BEHOLD, MY FAMILY IS POOR IN MANASSEH_] הנה אלפי הדל, _Behold, my_ _thousand is impoverished_. Tribes were ancient...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Gideon now perceived that the Lord was speaking to him by His angel. He saw, however, no qualifications in himself, or in his family or tribe, for the office of saviour to his people. He therefore des...

  • 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

    MY LORD*. This is one of the 134 places where the primitive text "Jehovah" has been altered to "Adonai" See App-32. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ FAMILY. thousand (1 Samuel 10:19). POOR. t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Oh Lord_ Read with a slight change, OH MY LORD as in Judges 6:13. _my family … the least_ Saul used the same plea, 1 Samuel 9:21. -Family" is lit. -thousand," a division of the tribe which correspond...

  • 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 I AM THE LEAST IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE— Thus God is often pleased to choose the weak things of the world to confound the strong. But the humility of those who know their own weakness, and confide in...

  • 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 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....

  • 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

    OH MY LORD. — Here our version deliberately adopts the reading _adonî, as_ in Judges 6:13, and the reason for this reading is that Gideon does not appear _to_ have fully recognised the angel till his...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנָ֔י בַּ מָּ֥ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • 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

    The meanest in Manasses, &c. Mark how the Lord chooses the humble (who are mean and little in their own eyes) for the greatest enterprises. (Challoner) --- Hebrew and Septuagint literally, "My millena...

  • 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 HE SAID UNTO HIM, OH MY LORD,.... Whether he had yet suspected who he was, or took him still for some eminent person, is not certain; it is very probable he began to think he was some extraordinar...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 15. _Wherewith shall I save Israel?_] Since I...

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

    _Behold, my family_ Hebrew, _my thousand._ For the tribes were distributed into several thousands, whereof each thousand had its peculiar governor; _is poor_ Weak and contemptible. _I am the least in...

  • 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 he said unto Him, O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? acknowledging the speaker as the Lord God. BEHOLD, MY FAMILY IS POOR IN MANASSEH, my division of a thousand families is the lowliest in...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MY FAMILY IS POOR: _ Heb._ my thousand is the meanest...

  • 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

    MY FAMILY, Heb. _my thousand_; for the tribes were distributed into several thousands, whereof each thousand had his peculiar governor. POOR, i.e. weak and contemptible. I AM THE LEAST either for age,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 6:15 said H559 (H8799) O H994 Lord H136 how H4100 save H3467 (H8686) Israel H3478 clan...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And he said to him, “Oh Lord, with what shall I save Israel? Look, my family is the poorest in Manasseh. And I am the least in my father's house” ' (Compare Exodus 4:10; Exodus 4:13). The word for ‘...

  • 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 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Samuel 18:23; 1 Samuel 9:21; Ephesians 3:8;...

  • 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

    My family — Heb. my thousand: for the tribes were distributed into several thousands, whereof each thousand had his peculiar governor. Is poor — That is, weak and contemptible. The least — Either for...

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