Judges 6:12 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Judges 6:12

10 Also I said to you, “I am the Lord your God; ^ado not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not obeyed My ^bvoice.’ ”

Gideon

11 Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash ^athe Abiezrite, while his son ^bGideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites.

12 And the ^aAngel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is ^bwith you, you mighty man of valor!”

13 Gideon said to Him, “O¹ my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And ^awhere are all His miracles ^bwhich our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has ^cforsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

14 Then the Lord turned to him and said, ^a“Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. ^bHave I not sent you?”

15 So he said to Him, “O¹ my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed ^amy clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

Book Notes:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Judges

JUDGES is the title given to the next book, from its containing the history of those non-regal rulers who governed the Hebrews from the time of Joshua to that of Eli, and whose functions in time of peace consisted chiefly in the administration of justice, although they occasionally led the people in their wars against their public enemies. The date and authorship of this book are not precisely known. It is certain, however, that it preceded the Second Book of Samuel (compare Judges 9:35 with II Samuel 11:21), as well as the conquest of Jerusalem by David (compare Judges 1:21 with II Samuel 5:6). Its author was in all probability Samuel, the last of the judges (see Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25), and the date of the first part of it is fixed in the reign of Saul, while the five chapters at the close might not have been written till after David's establishment as king in Israel (see Judges 18:31). It is a fragmentary history, being a collection of important facts and signal deliverances at different times and in various parts of the land, during the intermediate period of three hundred years between Joshua and the establishment of the monarchy. The inspired character of this book is confirmed by allusions to it in many passages of Scripture (compare Judges 4:2; Judges 6:14 with I Samuel 12:9-12; Judges 9:53 with II Samuel 11:21; Judges 7:25 with Psalms 83:11; compare Judges 5:4-5 with Psalms 7:5; Judges 13:5; Judges 16:17 with Matthew 2:13-23; Acts 13:20; Hebrews 11:32).