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Judges 6:18
18Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.”
Judges 6:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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 King James Version (NKJV)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 (NLT)Don’t go away until I come back and bring my offering to you.” He answered, “I will stay here until you return.”
Context of Judges 6:18
16The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” 17Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.” 19Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. 20The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
Read all of Judges 6Judges 6:18 word by word
אַל־נָ֨א תָמֻ֤שׁ מִזֶּה֙ עַד־בֹּאִ֣י אֵלֶ֔יךָ וְהֹֽצֵאתִי֙ אֶת־מִנְחָתִ֔י וְהִנַּחְתִּ֖י לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אָנֹכִ֥י אֵשֵׁ֖ב עַ֥ד שׁוּבֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Departמוּשׁmûsh · to removeH4185
- not hence, I pray thee, until I comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
- unto thee, and bring forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
- my presentמִנְחָהminchâh · offering: giftH4503
- and setיָנַחyânach · to restH3240
- beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
- thee. And he saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
- I will tarryיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
- until thou come againשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
Cross-references for Judges 6:18
- Judges 13:15Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.”
- Genesis 18:3He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by.
- Genesis 19:3But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
Commentaries on Judges 6:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18And 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18My 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.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-24Verses 11-24 Gideon was a man of a brave, active spirit, yet in obscurity through the times: he is here stirred up to undertake something great. It was very sure that the Lord was with him, when his Angel was with him. Gideon was weak in faith, which made it hard to reconcile the assurances of the presence of God with the distress to which Israel was brought. The Angel answered his objections. He told him to appear and act as Israel's deliverer, there…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-32Gideon met the angel of the Lord and became a hero. He destroyed the mixed Baal religion of his family and town. He then called his people to fight for the Lord.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-3218. Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I ... bring forth my present--Hebrew, my mincha, or "meat offering"; and his idea probably was to prove, by his visitor's partaking of the entertainment, whether or not he was more than man.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Judges 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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