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Good News Translation

Judges 6:23

But the Lord told him, "Peace. Don't be afraid. You will not die."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Communion;   Gideon;   God;   Jesus, the Christ;   Judge;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discouragement-Encouragement;   Fear;   Fear Nots;   Peace Invoked;   Seven;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ Is God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ophrah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Peace;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Fire;   Grace;   Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiezer;   Joash;   Ophrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Judges, Book of;   Peace, Spiritual;   Theophany;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel of the Lord (Jahweh);   Jehovah-Shalom;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blessing (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jerubbaal;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gideon;   Midian;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Face;   Gideon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Peace;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gideon;   Names of God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the Lord said to him, “Peace to you. Don’t be afraid, for you will not die.”
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said to him, Shalom be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.
King James Version
And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said to him, "Peace be with you. Do not fear; you will not die."
English Standard Version
But the Lord said to him, "Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die."
New Century Version
But the Lord said to Gideon, "Calm down! Don't be afraid! You will not die!"
New English Translation
The Lord said to him, "You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!"
Amplified Bible
The LORD said to him, "Peace to you, do not be afraid; you shall not die."
New American Standard Bible
But the LORD said to him, "Peace to you, do not be afraid; you shall not die."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord said vnto him, Peace be vnto thee: feare not, thou shalt not die.
Legacy Standard Bible
and for others, save, snatching them out of the fire; and on others have mercy with fear, hating even the tunic polluted by the flesh.
Contemporary English Version
"Calm down!" the Lord told Gideon. "There's nothing to be afraid of. You're not going to die."
Complete Jewish Bible
But Adonai reassured him, "Shalom to you, don't be afraid, you won't die!"
Darby Translation
And Jehovah said to him, Peace be unto thee: fear not; thou shalt not die.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord said to Gideon, "Calm down! Don't be afraid! You will not die!"
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to him, Peace be unto you; fear not; you shall not die.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah said to him, Peace to you, fear not. You shall not die.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE sayde vnto him: Peace be with the, feare not, thou shalt not dye.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
Bible in Basic English
But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; have no fear: you are in no danger of death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde sayd vnto him: Peace be vnto thee, feare not, thou shalt not dye.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD said unto him: 'Peace be unto thee; fear not; thou shalt not die.'
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord said vnto him, Peace be vnto thee, feare not, thou shalt not die.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to him, Peace be to thee, fear not, thou shalt not die.
English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
Berean Standard Bible
But the LORD said to him, "Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to hym, Pees be with thee; drede thou not, thou schalt not die.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith to him, `Peace to thee; fear not; thou dost not die.'
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to him, Peace [be] to thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
World English Bible
Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.
New King James Version
Then the LORD said to him, "Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die."
New Living Translation
"It is all right," the Lord replied. "Do not be afraid. You will not die."
New Life Bible
The Lord said to him, "Peace be with you. Do not be afraid. You will not die."
New Revised Standard
But the Lord said to him, "Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said unto him - Peace be unto thee! Do not fear, - thou shalt not die.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear not, thou shalt not die.
Revised Standard Version
But the LORD said to him, "Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die."
THE MESSAGE
But God reassured him, "Easy now. Don't panic. You won't die."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD said to him, "Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die."

Contextual Overview

11 Then the Lord 's angel came to the village of Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was threshing some wheat secretly in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him. 12 The Lord 's angel appeared to him there and said, "The Lord is with you, brave and mighty man!" 13 Gideon said to him, "If I may ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if the Lord is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us the Lord used to do—how he brought them out of Egypt? The Lord has abandoned us and left us to the mercy of the Midianites." 14 Then the Lord ordered him, "Go with all your great strength and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I myself am sending you." 15 Gideon replied, "But Lord, how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least important member of my family." 16 The Lord answered, "You can do it because I will help you. You will crush the Midianites as easily as if they were only one man." 17 Gideon replied, "If you are pleased with me, give me some proof that you are really the Lord . 18 Please do not leave until I bring you an offering of food." He said, "I will stay until you come back." 19 So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to the Lord 's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him. 20 The angel told him, "Put the meat and the bread on this rock, and pour the broth over them." Gideon did so.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Peace be: Genesis 32:30, Genesis 43:23, Psalms 85:8, Daniel 10:19, John 14:27, John 20:19, John 20:26, Romans 1:7

Reciprocal: Judges 19:20 - Peace be Luke 1:13 - Fear

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto him,.... Either by a secret impulse upon his spirit, or by a voice from heaven; and even, as Kimchi observes, the angel, after he ascended, might cause this voice to be heard, seeing him in great fear, because he knew he was an angel; and which is another proof of this angel being Jehovah himself, the eternal Word:

peace be unto thee, fear not, thou shall not die; let not thy mind be ruffled and disturbed, but serene and calm; fear not that any evil shall befall thee, and particularly death; thou shall be safe from any danger whatever, and especially from death, which he expected in his flight would immediately follow.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:23. Fear not: thou shalt not die. — Here the discovery is made by God himself: Gideon is not curiously prying into forbidden mysteries, therefore he shall not die.


 
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