21 Then the Angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and afire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
22 Now Gideon aperceived that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! bFor I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.”
23 Then the Lord said to him, a“Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.”
24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it1 The-Lord-Is-Peace. To this day it is still ain Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
25 Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and atear down the altar of bBaal that your father has, and ccut down the wooden image that is beside it;
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Barnes' Notes for Judges 6:23.
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