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Judges 6:11

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Gideon Meets Some Visitors

6:11 The Lord’s angelic messenger 1  came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon 2  was threshing 3  wheat in a winepress 4  so he could hide it from the Midianites. 5 

Judges 6:22

Context

6:22 When Gideon realized 6  that it was the Lord’s messenger, he 7  said, “Oh no! 8  Master, Lord! 9  I have seen the Lord’s messenger face to face!”

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[6:11]  1 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive.

[6:11]  2 tn Heb “Now Gideon his son…” The Hebrew circumstantial clause (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + predicate) breaks the narrative sequence and indicates that the angel’s arrival coincided with Gideon’s threshing.

[6:11]  3 tn Heb “beating out.”

[6:11]  4 sn Threshing wheat in a winepress. One would normally thresh wheat at the threshing floor outside the city. Animals and a threshing sledge would be employed. Because of the Midianite threat, Gideon was forced to thresh with a stick in a winepress inside the city. For further discussion see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 63.

[6:11]  5 tn Heb “Midian.”

[6:22]  6 tn Heb “saw.”

[6:22]  7 tn Heb “Gideon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:22]  8 tn Or “Ah!”

[6:22]  9 tn The Hebrew text reads אֲדֹנַי יְהוִה (’adonay yÿhvih, “Lord [the same title used in v. 15], Lord”).



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