Judges Chapter 6

Midian opresses Israel

6:1 And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel [and] because of the Midianites the sons of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
6:3 And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, even they came up against them;
6:4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude ; [for] both they and their camels were without number and they entered into the land to destroy it.
6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites ; and the sons of Israel cried to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
6:7 And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel cried to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here because of the Midianites,
6:8 That YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, which said to them, This says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage ;
6:9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land ;
6:10 And I said to you, I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your God ; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ya’ll stay but ya’ll have not obeyed my voice.

Gideon and the angel

6:11 And there came an angel of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and sat under an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] to Joash the Abiezrite and his son Gideon threshed graint by the wine press, to hide [it] from the Midianites.
6:12 And the angel of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here appeared to him, and said to him, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here [is] with ya’ll , you mighty man of valor.
6:13 And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Didn’t YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here bring us up from Egypt ? but now YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
6:14 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here looked on him, and said, Go in this your might, and you will save Israel from the hand of the Midianites haven’t I sent ya’ll ?
6:15 And he said to him, Oh my Lord, by which shall I save Israel ? look, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father’s house.
6:16 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here said to him, Surely I will be with ya’ll , and you will strike the Midianites as one man.
6:17 And he said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talked with me.
6:18 Depart not for this reason, I pray ya’ll , until I come to ya’ll , and bring forth my present, and set [it] before ya’ll . And he said, I will tarry until you come again.
6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out to him under the oak, and presented [it].
6:20 And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay [them] on this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
6:21 Then the angel of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here put forth the end of the staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes ; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here departed out of his sight.
6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an angel of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here face to face.
6:23 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here said to him, Peace [be] to ya’ll ; fear not you will not die.
6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and called it Jehovahshalom to this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
6:25 And it so happened the same night, that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here said to him, Take your father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that [is] by it
6:26 And build an altar to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you will cut down.
6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here had said to him and [so] it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he couldn’t do [it] by day, that he did [it] by night.
6:28 And when the men of the city got up early in the morning, see, the altar of Baal was thrown down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built.
6:29 And they said one to another, Who has done this thing ? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.
6:30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die because he has thrown down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the grove that [was] by it.
6:31 And Joash said to all that stood against him, Will ya’ll plead for Baal ? will ya’ll save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death while [it is yet] morning if he [be] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] has thrown down his altar.
6:32 So on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he has thrown down his altar.
6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the sons of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
6:34 But the Spirit of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet ; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
6:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh ; who also was gathered after him and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali ; and they came up to meet them.

Gideon’s signs

6:36 And Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, like you have said,
6:37 See, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor ; [and] if the dew be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all the earth [beside], then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
6:38 And it was so for he got up early the next day, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
6:39 And Gideon said to God, Let not your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once let me prove, I pray ya’ll , but this once with the fleece ; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
6:40 And God did so that night for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.