Juízes 7:15

15 Quando Gideão ouviu o sonho e a sua interpretação, adorou a Deus. Voltou para o acampamento de Israel e gritou: “Levantem-se! O SENHOR entregou o acampamento midianita nas mãos de vocês”.

Juízes 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 7:15

And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and
the interpretation thereof
Or, "the breaking of it" ^F7; the dream itself being like something closed up and sealed, and the interpretation of it was like the breaking of a seal, and discovering what is hid under it; or like a nut, the kernel of which cannot be come at till the shell is broken:

that he worshipped;
bowed his head with an awful reverence of God and a sense of his divine Majesty, and worshipped him by sending an ejaculatory prayer and praise to him; and so the Targum,

``and he praised''

praised God for this gracious encouragement he had given, the assurance of victory he now had; for he saw clearly the hand of God in all this, both in causing one of the soldiers to dream as he did, and giving the other the interpretation of it, and himself the hearing of both:

and returned into the host of Israel;
such an one as it was, consisting only of three hundred unarmed men: and said, arise; from their sleep and beds, it being the night season; and from their tents, and descend the hill with him:

for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian;
he made now no doubt of it, it was as sure to him as if it had been actually done; hence Gideon is renowned for his faith, though he sometimes was not without his fits of diffidence; see ( Hebrews 11:32 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (wrbv) "fractionem ejus", Vatablus, Drusius; "fracturam ejus", Piscator.

Juízes 7:15 In-Context

13 Gideão chegou bem no momento em que um homem estava contando seu sonho a um amigo. “Tive um sonho”, dizia ele. “Um pão de cevada vinha rolando dentro do acampamento midianita e atingiu a tenda com tanta força que ela tombou e se desmontou”.

14 Seu amigo respondeu: “Não pode ser outra coisa senão a espada de Gideão, filho de Joás, o israelita. Deus entregou os midianitas e todo o acampamento nas mãos dele”.

15 Quando Gideão ouviu o sonho e a sua interpretação, adorou a Deus. Voltou para o acampamento de Israel e gritou: “Levantem-se! O SENHOR entregou o acampamento midianita nas mãos de vocês”.

16 Dividiu os trezentos homens em três companhias e pôs nas mãos de todos eles trombetas e jarros vazios, com tochas dentro.

17 E ele lhes disse: “Observem-me. Façam o que eu fizer. Quando eu chegar à extremidade do acampamento, façam o que eu fizer.