士师记 6:27

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

基甸就從他的僕人中選出了十個人，照著耶和華告訴他的行了；但因為害怕他的父家和城裡的人，就不敢在日間行事，只好在晚上作了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
基 甸 就 从 他 仆 人 中 挑 了 十 个 人 ， 照 着 耶 和 华 吩 咐 他 的 行 了 。 他 因 怕 父 家 和 本 城 的 人 ， 不 敢 在 白 昼 行 这 事 ， 就 在 夜 间 行 了 。

Contextual Overview

²⁵ That same night the Lord said to Gideon, "Take the bull that belongs to your father and a second bull seven years old. Pull down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah idol beside it. ²⁶ Then build an altar to the Lord your God with its stones in the right order on this high ground. Kill and burn a second bull on this altar, using the wood from the Asherah idol." ²⁷ So Gideon got ten of his servants and did what the Lord had told him to do. But Gideon was afraid that his family and the men of the city might see him, so he did it at night, not in the daytime. ²⁸ When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw that the altar for Baal had been destroyed and that the Asherah idol beside it had been cut down! They also saw the altar Gideon had built and the second bull that had been sacrificed on it. ²⁹ The men of the city asked each other, "Who did this?" After they asked many questions, someone told them, "Gideon son of Joash did this." ³⁰ So they said to Joash, "Bring your son out. He has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah idol beside it. He must die!" ³¹ But Joash said to the angry crowd around him, "Are you going to take Baal's side? Are you going to defend him? Anyone who takes Baal's side will be killed by morning! If Baal is a god, let him fight for himself. It's his altar that has been pulled down." ³² So on that day Gideon got the name Jerub-Baal, which means "let Baal fight against him," because Gideon pulled down Baal's altar.

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.