Judges 6:3-13

3 For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

4 So they would camp against them and ¹destroy the produce of the earth as far * as Gaza, and ²leave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey.

5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in ³like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable *; and they came into the land to devastate it.

6 So Israel was brought ⁴very low because * of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the LORD.

7 Now it came about when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD on account of Midian,

8 that the LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and ⁵he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of slavery.

9 'I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before * you and gave you their land,

10 and I said to you, "I am the LORD your God; you ⁶shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not obeyed * Me.""'

Gideon Is Visited

11 Then ⁷the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the ⁸Abiezrite as his son ⁹Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

12 The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior."

13 Then Gideon said to him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But ¹⁰now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian."

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Judges 6:3-13 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 10

1. Leviticus 26:16
2. Deuteronomy 28:31
3. Judges 7:12; Judges 8:10
4. Deuteronomy 28:43
5. Judges 2:1, 2
6. 2 Kings 17:35; Jeremiah 10:2
7. Judges 2:1; Judges 6:14; Judges 13:3
8. Joshua 17:2; Judges 6:15
9. Hebrews 11:32
10. Judges 6:1; Psalms 44:9

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "go up"
[b]. Lit "until your coming to"
[c]. Lit "slaves"
[d]. Lit "listened to My voice"
[e]. Or "terebinth"