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Judges 6:17-27

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17 Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.
18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the LORD said, “I will wait until you return.”
19 Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah[a] of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
21 Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.
22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
23 But the LORD said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.”
24 So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
25 That same night the LORD said to him, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old.[b] Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole[c] beside it.
26 Then build a proper kind of[d] altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second[e] bull as a burnt offering.”
27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
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Judges 6:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 6

In this chapter we have an account of the distressed condition Israel was in through the Midianites, Jud 6:1-6, of a prophet being sent unto them to reprieve them for their sins, Jud 6:7-10 of an angel appearing to Gideon, with an order to him to go and save Israel out of the hands of the Midianites, Jud 6:11-16 and of a sign given him by the angel, whereby he knew this order was of God, Jud 6:17-24, and of the reformation from idolatry in his father's family he made upon this, throwing down the altar of Baal, and building one for the Lord, Jud 6:25-32, and of the preparation he made to fight the Midianites and others, Jud 6:33-35, but first desired a sign of the Lord, that Israel would be saved by his hand, which was granted and repeated, Jud 6:36-40.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. ver 36-37; S Genesis 24:14; S Exodus 3:12; S Exodus 4:8; Isaiah 38:7-8
  • 2. Judges 13:15
  • 3. S Leviticus 19:36
  • 4. Genesis 18:7-8
  • 5. Judges 13:19
  • 6. S Exodus 4:2
  • 7. S Leviticus 9:24
  • 8. Judges 13:16,21
  • 9. Genesis 32:30; Exodus 33:20; Judges 13:22
  • 10. Daniel 10:19
  • 11. S Genesis 16:13; S Deuteronomy 5:26
  • 12. S Genesis 22:14
  • 13. S Joshua 18:23; Judges 8:32
  • 14. ver 26,28,30; Exodus 34:13; S Judges 2:13; Deuteronomy 7:5
  • 15. S Genesis 8:20

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
  • [b]. Or "Take a full-grown, mature bull from your father’s herd"
  • [c]. That is, a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah; also in verses 26, 28 and 30
  • [d]. Or "build with layers of stone an"
  • [e]. Or "full-grown" ; also in verse 28
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