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Geneva Bible

Judges 6:12

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him, and said vnto him, The Lord is with thee, thou valiant man.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (Holy Trinity);   Angel (a Spirit);   Call;   Communion;   Excuses;   God;   Judge;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Midianites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ophrah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Mission;   Theophany;   Victory;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiezer;   Joash;   Mary, the Virgin;   Ophrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Salvation;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel of the Lord (Jahweh);   Gideon;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annunciation, the ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jerubbaal;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gideon;   Midian;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gid'eon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anthropology;   Gideon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Beschreien;   Courage;   Gideon;   Greeting, Forms of;   Labor;   Shem Ha-Meforash;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said: “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.”
Hebrew Names Version
The angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, the LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor.
King James Version
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Lexham English Bible
The angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty warrior."
English Standard Version
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor."
New Century Version
The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and said, "The Lord is with you, mighty warrior!"
New English Translation
The Lord 's messenger appeared and said to him, "The Lord is with you, courageous warrior!"
Amplified Bible
And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O brave man."
New American Standard Bible
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, valiant warrior."
Legacy Standard Bible
These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;
Contemporary English Version
The angel appeared and spoke to Gideon, "The Lord is helping you, and you are a strong warrior."
Complete Jewish Bible
The angel of Adonai appeared to him and said to him: "You valiant hero! Adonai is with you!"
Darby Translation
And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him, and said to him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
George Lamsa Translation
And the angel of the LORD appeared and said to him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor.
Good News Translation
The Lord 's angel appeared to him there and said, "The Lord is with you, brave and mighty man!"
Literal Translation
And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him, and said to him, Jehovah is with you, mighty warrior.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then appeared vnto him the angell of ye LORDE, and sayde vnto him: The LORDE with ye thou mightie giaunte.
American Standard Version
And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him, and said unto him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
Bible in Basic English
And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the angel of the Lorde appeared vnto him, and said vnto him: The Lord is with thee, thou mightie man.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him: 'The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.'
King James Version (1611)
And the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him, and said vnto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mightie man of valour.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty in strength.
English Revised Version
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Berean Standard Bible
And the Angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that he schulde fle Madian, an aungel of the Lord apperide to hym, and seide, The Lord be with thee, thou strongeste of men.
Young's Literal Translation
and the messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto him, and saith unto him, `Jehovah [is] with thee, O mighty one of valour.'
Update Bible Version
And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
World English Bible
The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.
New King James Version
And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!"
New Living Translation
The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, "Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!"
New Life Bible
The angel of the Lord showed himself to Gideon and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O powerful soldier."
New Revised Standard
The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
so the messenger of Yahweh appeared unto him, - and said unto him, Yahweh, is with thee, thou mighty man of valour!
Douay-Rheims Bible
The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men.
Revised Standard Version
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior."

Contextual Overview

11 And the Angell of the Lord came, and sate vnder the oke which was in Ophrah, that perteined vnto Ioash the father of the Ezrites, and his sonne Gideon threshed wheate by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 Then the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him, and said vnto him, The Lord is with thee, thou valiant man. 13 To whome Gideon answered, Ah my Lorde, if the Lord be with vs, why then is all this come vpon vs? and where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, and sayd, Did not the Lorde bring vs out of Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the hand of the Midianites. 14 And the Lord looked vpon him, & sayd, Goe in this thy might, and thou shalt saue Israel out of the handes of the Midianites: haue not I sent thee? 15 And he answered him, Ah my Lord, whereby shal I saue Israel? beholde, my father is poore in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house. 16 Then the Lord sayd vnto him, I wil therefore be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man. 17 And he answered him, I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, then shewe me a signe, that thou talkest with me. 18 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. 19 Then Gideon went in, and made ready a kidde, and vnleauened bread of an Ephah of floure, and put the flesh in a basket, and put the broth in a pot, and brought it out vnto him vnder the oke, and presented it. 20 And the Angell of God saide vnto him, Take the flesh and the vnleauened bread, and lay them vpon this stone, and powre out the broth: and he did so.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the angel: Judges 13:3, Luke 1:11, Luke 1:28

The Lord: Judges 2:18, Exodus 3:12, Joshua 1:5, Joshua 1:9, Ruth 2:4, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 28:20, Luke 1:28, Acts 18:9, Acts 18:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:20 - God Deuteronomy 20:1 - the Lord Joshua 3:10 - among Judges 1:19 - the Lord Judges 6:16 - General Judges 11:1 - a mighty 1 Samuel 10:7 - God 1 Kings 13:18 - an angel 1 Chronicles 22:18 - Is not 1 Chronicles 26:6 - mighty men of valour 2 Chronicles 17:3 - the Lord Job 29:5 - the Almighty Matthew 4:18 - for Luke 2:9 - lo John 1:18 - he hath

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
Genesis 6:2
Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
Genesis 6:3
Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentie yeeres.
Genesis 6:4
There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
Genesis 6:5
When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:13
And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make thee an Arke of pine trees: thou shalt make cabines in the Arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
Genesis 6:16
A windowe shalt thou make in the Arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it aboue, and the doore of the Arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: thou shalt make it with the lowe, seconde and third roume.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him,.... He stayed some time under the oak, and Gideon being busy in threshing, took no notice of him wherefore he came and stood before him, in his sight:

and said unto him, the Lord is with thee; the gracious presence of God was with Gideon while he was threshing, who very probably was sending up ejaculations to heaven, on account of the distressed case of Israel, and was deep in meditation about the affairs of the people of God, and contriving how to deliver them; or the angel might mean himself, who was no other than Jehovah, the eternal Word of God, who was present with him, and spake unto him; and so the Targum,

"my Word is thy help:''

thou mighty man of valour; who very probably was a stout man in body, and of a courageous mind naturally, and might at this instant have an increase both of bodily strength and greatness of soul; or, however, this was said to animate and encourage him to do what he was about to be sent to do.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou mighty man of valor - Known to God to be such, though as yet not known to be such either by himself or his countrymen (compare Luke 1:28, Luke 1:30).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:12. The Lord is with thee] "The WORD of the Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour." - Targum. It appears that Gideon had proved himself, on former occasions, to be a man of courage anti personal prowess; and this would naturally excite the confidence of his countrymen. God chooses for his work those instruments which, in the course of his operations in nature and providence, he has qualified for his purpose. The instruments thus chosen are generally unlikely, but they will be ever found the best qualified for the Divine employment.


 
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