Judges 6 Summaries

*Then the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hands of Midian seven years.* (v.1) This verse opens with a tragic refrain heard throughout the Boo...

*“The power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.”* (Judges 6:2). The Isr...

*For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.* (v.3) This verse unfolds during a time when the Israelites, havin...

*Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.* (Judges 6:4) This verse describes the op...

When the writer describes the Midianites in Judges 6:5, he emphasizes the sheer magnitude of their invasion by saying that *“they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in...

*“So Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the LORD.”* (v.6) This verse captures the desperation of God’s chosen people during a time of relentless oppression....

*“Now it came about, when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD on account of Midian,”* (v.7). The scene unfolds sometime around 1100 BC, during the era when Israel was ruled by judges rather than king...

*that the LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of slavery’...

*“I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land.”* (v.9) This verse highlights the mighty acts of ...

In this passage, the angel of the Lord recounts the Lord’s message to Israel, *“And I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you ...

*Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the ...

*“The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, ‘The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.’”* (v.12) Here we encounter Gideon at Ophrah in the territory of Manasseh, a region located north of ...

*Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us u...

In this passage, we see Gideon—believed to have lived around 1100 BC—face a task beyond normal human capacity. The nation of Israel had been oppressed by Midianites, a people dwelling primarily east o...

Gideon, a judge and military leader in Israel around 1100 BC, responds to God’s calling with a sense of deep inadequacy in *“And he said to Him, ‘O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family ...

*“But the LORD said to him, ‘Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.’”* (v.16) In this passage, the LORD speaks directly to Gideon, providing both a promise and a command. G...

Gideon, one of the judges of Israel who served around the 12th century BC, is speaking to the Angel of the LORD in this verse. During this time, Israel’s tribes had settled in the Promised Land but of...

When Gideon, living in Ophrah of the tribe of Manasseh under Midianite oppression, first encountered the Angel of the Lord, he made a heartfelt request: *“Please do not depart from here, until I come ...

In *So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the oak and presented...

When *“the angel of God said to him, ‘Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.’ And he did so”* (Judges 6:20 NASB-95), it reveals a divine directive gi...

Then we read: *“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 fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and t...

Gideon, who served as one of Israel’s judges during the era when the nation often fell into subjugation by foreign powers (roughly between 1200–1100 BC), has a moment of profound realization in Judges...

In this passage, the angel of the LORD comforts Gideon in a moment of great fear. *“The LORD said to him, ‘Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.’”* (v.23) Gideon is understandably terrified af...

*So Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it The LORD is Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.* (Judges 6:24). This verse depicts the moment Gideon chooses to honor t...

In the days when Israel repeatedly turned to idols, the LORD selected Gideon to confront the pagan worship that had taken hold among his own people. Gideon lived around 1100 BC, during a tumultuous er...

In this passage, Gideon receives a divine directive to restore proper worship to the LORD. When the angel of the LORD instructs him *“and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this strongh...

*Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.* (...

*“When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had...

*“They said to one another, ‘Who did this thing?’ And when they searched about and inquired, they said, ‘Gideon the son of Joash did this thing.’* (Judges 6:29) This verse describes the moment when th...

When we read, *“Then the men of the city said to Joash, ‘Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal, and indeed, he has cut down the Asherah which was beside it.’” (v....

*“But Joash said to all who stood against him, ‘Will you contend for Baal, or will you deliver him? Whoever will plead for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for him...

*“Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, that is to say, ‘Let Baal contend against him,’ because he had torn down his altar.” (v.32)* This verse depicts the moment Gideon acquires a new name, J...

*“Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the sons of the east assembled themselves; and they crossed over and camped in the valley of Jezreel.” (v.33)* The gathering of these groups underscore...

*So the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon; and he blew a trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called together to follow him.* (v.34) During the time of the Judges, around the 12th century BC, Israel fou...

*“He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, and they also were called together to follow him; and he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.”* (v.35) This verse d...

In Judges 6:36, we encounter the moment when *“Then Gideon said to God, ‘If You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken,’”* (v.36). Here, Gideon appeals directly to the LORD for confirmatio...

In the days when Israel was oppressed by the Midianites (around the 12th century BC), Gideon longed for certainty that God would truly rescue His people through him. As he sought divine confirmation, ...

*“And it was so. When he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.”* (v.38) In this verse, Gideon, who served as a judge over Isra...

*Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be...

Gideon, a judge of Israel around 1100 BC, had already witnessed God’s power when he requested a sign involving dew on a fleece of wool. Even after seeing the first sign, Gideon asked God to provide on...