士師記 6:20-26 JCB

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:21

The angel - put forth the end of the staff - He appeared like a traveler with a staff in his hand; this he put forth, and having touched the flesh, fire rose out of the rock and consumed it. Here was the most evident proof of supernatural agency. Then the angel - departed out of his sight - Though the angel vanished out of his sight, yet God continued to converse with him either by secret inspiration in his own heart, or by an audible voice. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:22

Alas , O Lord God ! for because I have seen - This is an elliptical sentence, a natural expression of the distressed state of Gideon's mind: as if he had said, Have mercy on me, O Lord God! else I shall die; because I have seen an angel of Jehovah face to face. We have frequently seen that it was a prevalent sentiment, as well before as under the law, that if any man saw God, or his representative angel he must surely die. On this account Gideon is alarmed, and prays for his... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:23

Fear not : thou shalt not die - Here the discovery is made by God himself: Gideon is not curiously prying into forbidden mysteries, therefore he shall not die. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:24

Gideon built an altar - and called it Jehovah-shalom - The words שלום יהוה Yehovah shalom signify The Lord is my peace, or The peace of Jehovah; and this name he gave the altar, in reference to what God had said, Judges 6:23 , Peace be unto thee, לך שלום shalom lecha , "Peace to thee;" which implied, not only a wish, but a prediction of the prosperous issue of the enterprise in which he was about to engage. It is likely that this is the altar which is mentioned in ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:25

Take thy father ' s young bullock , even the second bullock - There is some difficulty in this verse, for, according to the Hebrew text, two bullocks are mentioned here; but there is only one mentioned in Judges 6:26 , Judges 6:28 . But what was this second bullock? Some think that it was a bullock that was fattened in order to be offered in sacrifice to Baal. This is very probable, as the second bullock is so particularly distinguished from another which belonged to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:26

With the wood of the grove - It is probable that אשרה Asherah here signifies Astarte; and that there was a wooden image of this goddess on the altar of Baal. Baal-peor was the same as Priapus, Astarte as Venus; these two impure idols were proper enough for the same altar. In early times, and among rude people, the images of the gods were made of wood. This is the case still with the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, with the Indians of America, and with the inhabitants of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:20

Pour out the broth - Libations were a very ancient form of offering (compare Genesis 35:14). The drink offerings of wine under the Levitical law were poured upon the altar Exodus 30:9. The pouring of the broth upon the rock was evidently of the nature of a libation. It might also, like the water poured by Elijah upon his sacrifice, make the miracle of the fire that consumed the sacrifice more apparent. (Compare 1 Kings 18:33.) read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:22

Alas, O Lord GOD! - Compare Joshua 7:7. “because I have seen an angel of the Lord” Compare the marginal references, in which the notion that it was death for mortal man to see God appears clearly. The same notion prevailed among the pagan. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:24

Gideon’s naming the altar which he built, in commemoration of the words of peace spoken by the Angel, is very similar to what we read of Abraham Genesis 22:14, and of Moses (Exodus 17:15, when he named the altar Jehovah-nissi). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:25

Even - Rather, as in the margin, and. Two bullocks are spoken of. The labor of both would be required for pulling down and removing the altar of Baal, and for bringing the materials for building the altar of Yahweh.The grove by it - Rather, “the idol upon it,” the Asherah, the wooden image of Astarte Judges 3:7. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 6:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 6:25

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