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Judges 6:18

Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my gift and set it before You." And the LORD said, "I will stay until you return."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Communion;   God;   Judge;   Miracles;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Presents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gifts;   Ophrah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Guidance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiezer;   Joash;   Ophrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel of the Lord (Jahweh);   Gideon;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Prayer;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jerubbaal;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gideon;   Midian;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gideon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Angelology;   Gideon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Please do not leave this place until I return to you. Let me bring my gift and set it before you.”
Hebrew Names Version
Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.
King James Version
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Lexham English Bible
Please, do not depart from here until I come back to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you." And he said, "I will stay until you return."
English Standard Version
Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you." And he said, "I will stay till you return."
New Century Version
Please wait here until I come back to you. Let me bring my offering and set it in front of you." And the Lord said, "I will wait until you return."
New English Translation
Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you." The Lord said, "I will stay here until you come back."
Amplified Bible
"Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring my offering and place it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you return."
New American Standard Bible
"Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring mine offring, and lay it before thee. And he sayde, I will tary vntill thou come againe.
Legacy Standard Bible
that they were saying to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts."
Contemporary English Version
And wait here until I bring you an offering." "All right, I'll wait," the Lord answered.
Complete Jewish Bible
Please don't leave until I go and return with a gift and present it to you." He replied, "I'll wait till you come back."
Darby Translation
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Easy-to-Read Version
Please wait here. Don't go away until I come back to you. Let me bring my offering and set it down in front of you." And the Lord said, "I will wait until you come back."
George Lamsa Translation
Do not depart from here until I come to thee and bring out my meal and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until you come again.
Good News Translation
Please do not leave until I bring you an offering of food." He said, "I will stay until you come back."
Literal Translation
Please do not move from here until I come to You and bring my food offering and lay it before You. And He said, I will stay until you come back.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
go not awaye, tyll I come to ye, and brynge a meatofferynge, to set before the. He sayde: I wyll tary, tyll thou comest agayne.
American Standard Version
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Bible in Basic English
Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Departe not hence I pray thee vntyll I come vnto thee, & tyll I bryng myne offring, and haue set it before thee. And he sayd: I will tary vntyll thou come againe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee.' And he said: 'I will tarry until thou come back.'
King James Version (1611)
Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring forth my Present, and set it before thee. And hee saide, I will tary vntill thou come againe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
depart not hence until I come to thee, and I will bring forth an offering and offer it before thee: and he said, I will remain until thou return.
English Revised Version
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
go thou not `awei fro hennus, til Y turne ayen to thee, and brynge sacrifice, and offre to thee. Whiche answeride, Y schal abide thi comyng.
Young's Literal Translation
Move not, I pray Thee, from this, till my coming in unto Thee, and I have brought out my present, and put it before Thee;' and he saith, `I -- I do abide till thy return.'
Update Bible Version
Do not depart from here, I pray you, until I come to you, and bring forth my present, and lay it before you. And he said, I will tarry until you come again.
Webster's Bible Translation
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring forth my present, and set [it] before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou comest again.
World English Bible
Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.
New King James Version
Do not depart from here, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you come back."
New Living Translation
Don't go away until I come back and bring my offering to you." He answered, "I will stay here until you return."
New Life Bible
I ask of You, do not leave here until I return to You with my gift and lay it before You." And the Lord said, "I will stay until you return."
New Revised Standard
Do not depart from here until I come to you, and bring out my present, and set it before you." And he said, "I will stay until you return."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not, I beseech thee, withdraw from hence, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said: I, will tarry until thou return.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.
Revised Standard Version
Do not depart from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring out my present, and set it before thee." And he said, "I will stay till you return."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."

Contextual Overview

11Then the Angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12And the Angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior." 13"Pardon me, Sir," Gideon replied, "but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders about which our fathers told us, saying, 'Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian." 14The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?" 15"Please, Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I deliver Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house." 16"Surely I will be with you," the LORD replied, "and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man." 17Gideon answered, "If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me. 18Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my gift and set it before You." And the LORD said, "I will stay until you return."19So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak. 20And the Angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." And Gideon did so.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bring: Judges 13:15, Genesis 18:3, Genesis 18:5, Genesis 19:3

present: or, meat offering

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 9:7 - what shall

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:16
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah entered the ark, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, to escape the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons-
Genesis 17:4
"As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee,.... Intending to go to his own, or his father's house, to fetch some food to entertain him with, and therefore entreats he would not quit the place where he was until he returned:

and bring forth my present, and set it before thee; to treat him with, as a stranger and a messenger of God; and perhaps he thought, by this means, the better to discover who he was, whether an angel or a man: the word for the "present" is "minchah", often used for a meat offering, therefore some have thought of a sacrifice; but it appears by what follows that it was not of the nature of a sacrifice; and, besides, Gideon was no priest, nor was this a place for sacrifice, nor was there here any altar; and, besides, as Gideon did not yet know that it was the Lord himself, he could never think of offering a sacrifice to him:

and he said, I will tarry until thou come again; which was a wonderful instance of divine condescension, it being some time he waited ere Gideon could prepare what he brought, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My present - My Minchah: the word used regularly, though not exclusively, for the meat and drink offering (Leviticus 2:1 note). Its double sense of an offering to God, and of a gift to man, suits the doubt in Gideon’s mind as to who his visitor might be.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:18. And bring forth my present — My minchah; generally an offering of bread, wine, oil, flour, and such like. It seems from this that Gideon supposed the person to whom he spoke to be a Divine person. Nevertheless, what he prepared and brought out appears to be intended simply as an entertainment to refresh a respectable stranger.


 
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