Hakim-hakim 6:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi jawabnya kepada-Nya: "Ah Tuhanku, dengan apakah akan kuselamatkan orang Israel? Ketahuilah, kaumku adalah yang paling kecil di antara suku Manasye dan akupun seorang yang paling muda di antara kaum keluargaku."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi jawabnya kepada-Nya: "Ah Tuhanku, dengan apakah akan kuselamatkan orang Israel? Ketahuilah, kaumku adalah yang paling kecil di antara suku Manasye dan akupun seorang yang paling muda di antara kaum keluargaku."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembahnya kepada-Nya: Ya tuan! dengan apa gerangan dapat hamba melepaskan orang Israel? Bahwasanya bangsa hamba terkecil dalam suku Manasye, maka hamba ini anak bungsu di antara orang isi rumah bapa hamba.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ And the angel of the Lorde came and sate vnder an Oke which was in Ephrah, that parteyned vnto Ioas the father of the Esrites: And his sonne Gedeon threshed wheat by the wyne presse, to hyde it from the Madianites. ¹² And the angel of the Lorde appeared vnto him, and said vnto him: The Lord is with thee, thou mightie man. ¹³ And Gedeon aunswered him: Oh my Lord, if the Lorde be with vs, why is all this come vpon vs? Yea, & where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, and sayd: Dyd not the Lord bryng vs out of Egypt? But nowe the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the handes of the Madianites. ¹⁴ And the Lord loked vpon him, and sayde: Go hence in this thy might, and thou shalt deliuer Israel out of the handes of the Madianites: Haue not I sent thee? ¹⁵ And he aunswered him: Oh Lorde, wherwith shall I saue Israel? Behold my kinred is poore in Manasses, and I am litle in my fathers house. ¹⁶ The Lord sayd vnto him: I will be with thee, & thou shalt smyte the Madianites, as they were but one man. ¹⁷ And he aunswered him: Oh, yf I haue founde grace in thy syght, than shew me a a signe, that it is thou that talkest with me: ¹⁸ 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. ¹⁹ And Gedeon went in, and made redy a kyd, and sweete cakes of an Epha of floure, and put it with the fleshe 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 angel of God sayd vnto him: Take the flesh and the sweete cakes, & lay them vpon this rocke, and powre out the broth. And he dyd so.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wherewith: Exodus 3:11, Exodus 4:10, Jeremiah 1:6, Luke 1:34

my family is poor: Heb. my thousand is the meanest, Exodus 18:21-25, 1 Samuel 9:21, 1 Samuel 18:23, Micah 5:2

the least: Genesis 32:10, Jeremiah 50:45, 1 Corinthians 15:9, Ephesians 3:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:16 - the renowned Judges 7:13 - a cake 1 Samuel 15:17 - When thou 2 Samuel 7:18 - Who am I 1 Chronicles 17:16 - what is Daniel 10:16 - my Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle, so that the mountaynes were couered.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og kyng of Basan, remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes, whose bed was a bed of iron: And is it not yet at Rabbath among ye children of Ammon? Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto him, oh my Lord,.... Whether he had yet suspected who he was, or took him still for some eminent person, is not certain; it is very probable he began to think he was some extraordinary person sent of God, and speaking in his name, and therefore expostulates with him about the work he put him upon:

wherewith shall I save Israel? in what way is it possible for me to do it, who had neither men nor money sufficient for such an undertaking?

behold, my family is poor in Manasseh; of which tribe he was, and the "thousand" in it, as the word l here used signifies, was the meanest of all the thousands in that tribe; some render it, "my father" m:

and I am the least in my father's house; perhaps the youngest son; though some take him, and others his father, to be the Chiliarch, or head of the thousand; but by these words of his it does not seem as if either was true; not but that he was of some wealth and substance, power and authority, by having such a number of servants as to take "ten" of them with him, Judges 6:27 however, this he says in great humility and modesty, having no high thoughts of himself and family, nor any dependence on his own strength, and on an arm of flesh.

l אלפי "chilias, mea", Montanus, Drusius; "mea millenaria", Tigurine version; "mille meum", Piscator. m "Pater meus", Pagninus; so some in Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gideon now perceived that the Lord was speaking to him by His angel. He saw, however, no qualifications in himself, or in his family or tribe, for the office of saviour to his people. He therefore desires some assurance that the message he had just received was indeed from God, and not a mere dream or delusion. He asks as a sign Judges 6:18 that his mysterious visitor should tarry under the oak until he should return to Him with his gifts and offerings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:15. Wherewith shall I save Israel? — I have neither men nor money.

Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh — הנה אלפי הדל, Behold, my thousand is impoverished. Tribes were anciently divided into tens, and fifties, and hundreds, and thousands; the thousands therefore marked grand divisions, and consequently numerous families; Gideon here intimates that the families of which he made a part were very much diminished. But if we take אלפי alpey for the contracted form of the plural, which is frequently in Hebrew nouns joined with a verb in the singular, then the translation will be, "The thousands in Manasseh are thinned;" i.e., this tribe is greatly reduced, and can do little against their enemies.