Juges 6:27

Darby's French Translation

Et Gédéon prit dix hommes d'entre ses serviteurs, et fit comme l'Éternel lui avait dit; et comme, à le faire de jour, il craignait la maison de son père et les hommes de la ville, il le fit de nuit.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et Gédéon prit dix hommes parmi ses serviteurs et fit comme l'Éternel lui avait dit; et comme il craignait la maison de son père et les gens de la ville, il le fit de nuit et non de jour.

Louis Segond (1910)
Gédéon prit dix hommes parmi ses serviteurs, et fit ce que l'Eternel avait dit; mais, comme il craignait la maison de son père et les gens de la ville, il l'exécuta de nuit, et non de jour.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Gédeon donc ayant pris dix hommes d'entre ses serviteurs, fit comme l'Eternel lui avait dit; et parce qu'il craignait la maison de son père et les gens de la ville, s'il l'eût fait de jour, il le fit de nuit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and did: Deuteronomy 4:1, Matthew 16:24, John 2:5, John 15:14, Galatians 1:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:4

he did it: Psalms 112:5, John 3:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:27 - Wherefore 1 Samuel 14:1 - he told not Nehemiah 2:12 - I arose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants,.... Not only whom he could command, but could confide in, and whom he knew would cheerfully engage in this work, being like himself, who had not bowed the knee to Baal; and as there was much work to do, and it required dispatch, such a number was necessary; since he had not only the altar of Baal to throw down, and his grove or idol to cut down, but an altar to build, and a sacrifice to be taken and offered:

and did as the Lord had said unto him; all the above things, he set about them at once, and dispatched them all in one night; so ready and cheerful was he in obedience to the divine command:

and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night; for both his father's family, and the inhabitants of the city of Ophrah, were all idolaters, worshippers of Baal; and this fear of them was not a fear of being reproached or punished for what he did, or of any harm coming to him for the fact, which as he might expect would be known, so the risk was the same, be it done when it would; but it was a fear of being restrained and hindered from doing it, and therefore in point of prudence, and consulting the honour of God and religion, and not his own safety, he took the time of the night to do it in.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The mention of the “men of the city” by the side of Gideon’s “father’s household” suggests the probability of their being a remnant of the Canaanite population, and the special patrons of Baal-worship.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. He feared his father's household — So it appears that his father was an idolater: but as Gideon had ten men of his own servants whom he could trust in this matter, it is probable that he had preserved the true faith, and had not bowed his knee to the image of Baal.