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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Judges 6:11 - 6:11
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Jdg 6:11-16. An angel sends Gideon to deliver them.
there came an angel of the Lord - He appeared in the character and equipments of a traveler (Jdg 6:21), who sat down in the shade to enjoy a little refreshment and repose. Entering into conversation on the engrossing topic of the times, the grievous oppression of the Midianites, he began urging Gideon to exert his well-known prowess on behalf of his country. Gideon, in replying, addresses him at first in a style equivalent (in Hebrew) to “sir,” but afterwards gives to him the name usually applied to God.
an oak - Hebrew, “the oak” - as famous in after-times.
Ophrah - a city in the tribe of Manasseh, about sixteen miles north of Jericho, in the district belonging to the family of Abiezer (Jos 17:2).
his son Gideon threshed wheat by the wine-press - This incident tells emphatically the tale of public distress. The small quantity of grain he was threshing, indicated by his using a flail instead of the customary treading of cattle - the unusual place, near a wine-press, under a tree, and on the bare ground, not a wooden floor, for the prevention of noise - all these circumstances reveal the extreme dread in which the people were living.