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Judges 6:18

"Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring my offering and place it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you return."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Communion;   God;   Judge;   Miracles;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Presents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gifts;   Ophrah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Guidance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiezer;   Joash;   Ophrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel of the Lord (Jahweh);   Gideon;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Prayer;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jerubbaal;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gideon;   Midian;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gideon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Angelology;   Gideon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Please do not leave this place until I return to you. Let me bring my gift and set it before you.”
Hebrew Names Version
Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
Please, do not depart from here until I come back to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you." And he said, "I will stay until you return."
English Standard Version
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 Century Version
Please wait here until I come back to you. Let me bring my offering and set it in front of you." And the Lord said, "I will wait until you return."
New English Translation
Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you." The Lord said, "I will stay here until you come back."
New American Standard Bible
"Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring mine offring, and lay it before thee. And he sayde, I will tary vntill thou come againe.
Legacy Standard Bible
that they were saying to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts."
Contemporary English Version
And wait here until I bring you an offering." "All right, I'll wait," the Lord answered.
Complete Jewish Bible
Please don't leave until I go and return with a gift and present it to you." He replied, "I'll wait till you come back."
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Please wait here. Don't go away until I come back to you. Let me bring my offering and set it down in front of you." And the Lord said, "I will wait until you come back."
George Lamsa Translation
Do not depart from here until I come to thee and bring out my meal and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until you come again.
Good News Translation
Please do not leave until I bring you an offering of food." He said, "I will stay until you come back."
Literal Translation
Please do not move from here until I come to You and bring my food offering and lay it before You. And He said, I will stay until you come back.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
go not awaye, tyll I come to ye, and brynge a meatofferynge, to set before the. He sayde: I wyll tary, tyll thou comest agayne.
American Standard Version
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Bible in Basic English
Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee.' And he said: 'I will tarry until thou come back.'
King James Version (1611)
Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring forth my Present, and set it before thee. And hee saide, I will tary vntill thou come againe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
depart not hence until I come to thee, and I will bring forth an offering and offer it before thee: and he said, I will remain until thou return.
English Revised Version
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Berean Standard Bible
Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my gift and set it before You." And the LORD said, "I will stay until you return."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
go thou not `awei fro hennus, til Y turne ayen to thee, and brynge sacrifice, and offre to thee. Whiche answeride, Y schal abide thi comyng.
Young's Literal Translation
Move not, I pray Thee, from this, till my coming in unto Thee, and I have brought out my present, and put it before Thee;' and he saith, `I -- I do abide till thy return.'
Update Bible Version
Do not depart from here, I pray you, until I come to you, and bring forth my present, and lay it before you. And he said, I will tarry until you come again.
Webster's Bible Translation
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring forth my present, and set [it] before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou comest again.
World English Bible
Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.
New King James Version
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
Don't go away until I come back and bring my offering to you." He answered, "I will stay here until you return."
New Life Bible
I ask of You, do not leave here until I return to You with my gift and lay it before You." And the Lord said, "I will stay until you return."
New Revised Standard
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 until you return."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not, I beseech thee, withdraw from hence, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said: I, will tarry until thou return.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.
Revised Standard Version
Do not depart from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring out my present, and set it before thee." And he said, "I will stay till you return."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."

Contextual Overview

11Now the Angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon was beating wheat in the wine press [instead of the threshing floor] to [hide it and] save it from the Midianites. 12And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O brave man." 13But Gideon said to him, "Please my lord, if the LORD is with us, then why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wondrous works which our fathers told us about when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian." 14The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?" 15But Gideon said to Him, "Please Lord, how am I to rescue Israel? Behold, my family is the least [significant] in Manasseh, and I am the youngest (smallest) in my father's house." 16The LORD answered him, "I will certainly be with you, and you will strike down the Midianites as [if they were only] one man." 17Gideon replied to Him, "If I have found any favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speaks with me. 18"Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring my offering and place it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you return."19Then Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket and the broth in a pot, and he brought the food to Him under the oak (terebinth) and presented it. 20The Angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth [over them]." And he did so.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bring: Judges 13:15, Genesis 18:3, Genesis 18:5, Genesis 19:3

present: or, meat offering

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 9:7 - what shall

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.
Genesis 6:16
"You shall make a window [for light and ventilation] for the ark, and finish it to at least a cubit (eighteen inches) from the top—and set the [entry] door of the ark in its side; and you shall make it with lower, second and third decks.
Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
Genesis 17:4
"As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And [as a result] you shall be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:7
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:21
"But My covenant [My promise, My solemn pledge], I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter your chambers And shut your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until the [LORD'S] wrath is past.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith [with confidence in God and His word] Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this [act of obedience] he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee,.... Intending to go to his own, or his father's house, to fetch some food to entertain him with, and therefore entreats he would not quit the place where he was until he returned:

and bring forth my present, and set it before thee; to treat him with, as a stranger and a messenger of God; and perhaps he thought, by this means, the better to discover who he was, whether an angel or a man: the word for the "present" is "minchah", often used for a meat offering, therefore some have thought of a sacrifice; but it appears by what follows that it was not of the nature of a sacrifice; and, besides, Gideon was no priest, nor was this a place for sacrifice, nor was there here any altar; and, besides, as Gideon did not yet know that it was the Lord himself, he could never think of offering a sacrifice to him:

and he said, I will tarry until thou come again; which was a wonderful instance of divine condescension, it being some time he waited ere Gideon could prepare what he brought, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:18. And 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.


 
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