Judges 6:6-16

6 So Israel was brought ¹very 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 ²he 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 ³shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not obeyed * Me.""'

Gideon Is Visited

11 Then ⁴the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the ⁵Abiezrite as his son ⁶Gideon 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 ⁷now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian."

14 The LORD looked at him and said, "⁸Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?"

15 ⁹He said to Him, "O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in ¹⁰Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house."

16 ¹¹But the LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man."

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Judges 6:6-16 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 11

1. Deuteronomy 28:43
2. Judges 2:1, 2
3. 2 Kings 17:35; Jeremiah 10:2
4. Judges 2:1; Judges 6:14; Judges 13:3
5. Joshua 17:2; Judges 6:15
6. Hebrews 11:32
7. Judges 6:1; Psalms 44:9
8. Hebrews 11:32-34
9. Exodus 3:11
10. Judges 6:11
11. Exodus 3:12; Joshua 1:5

Footnotes 6

[a]. Lit "slaves"
[b]. Lit "listened to My voice"
[c]. Or "terebinth"
[d]. Or "turned toward"
[e]. Lit "with what"
[f]. Lit "smite"