Judges 6:15

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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.”

16 And the Lord said to him, ^a“Surely I will be with you, and you shall¹ defeat the Midianites as one man.”

17 Then he said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then ^ashow me a sign that it is You who talk with me.

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Judges 6:15

Wherewith shall I save Israel ? - I have neither men nor money.

Behold , my family is poor in Manasseh - , Behold, my thousand is impoverished. Tribes were anciently divided into tens, and fifties, and hundreds, and thousands; the thousands therefore marked grand divisions, and consequently numerous families; Gideon here intimates that the families of which he made a part were very much diminished. But if we take alpey for the contracted form of the plural, which is frequently in Hebrew nouns joined with a verb in the singular, then the translation will be, "The thousands in Manasseh are thinned;" i.e., this tribe is greatly reduced, and can do little against their enemies.

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