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Judges 6:24

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6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” 1  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8:32

Context
8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a very 2  old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6:11

Context
Gideon Meets Some Visitors

6:11 The Lord’s angelic messenger 3  came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon 4  was threshing 5  wheat in a winepress 6  so he could hide it from the Midianites. 7 

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[6:24]  1 tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

[8:32]  2 tn Heb “good.”

[6:11]  3 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive.

[6:11]  4 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]  5 tn Heb “beating out.”

[6:11]  6 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]  7 tn Heb “Midian.”



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