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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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New Living Translation

Judges 6:16

The Lord said to him, "I will be with you. And you will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Call;   Communion;   Excuses;   Faith;   Gideon;   God;   Judge;   War;   Zeal, Religious;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ophrah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Guidance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Grace;   Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abiezer;   Joash;   Ophrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel of the Lord (Jahweh);   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 - Angelology;   Gideon;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And the Lord said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.
English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
New Century Version
The Lord answered him, "I will be with you. It will seem as if the Midianites you are fighting are only one man."
New English Translation
The Lord said to him, "Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army."
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
World English Bible
Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.
Amplified Bible
The LORD answered him, "I will certainly be with you, and you will strike down the Midianites as [if they were only] one man."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to hym, Y schal be with thee, and thou schalt smyte Madian as o man.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto him, `Because I am with thee -- thou hast smitten the Midianites as one man.'
Berean Standard Bible
"Surely I will be with you," the LORD replied, "and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man."
Contemporary English Version
"Gideon," the Lord answered, "you can rescue Israel because I am going to help you! Defeating the Midianites will be as easy as beating up one man."
American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lord sayd vnto him: I will be with thee, & thou shalt smyte the Madianites, as they were but one man.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to him, "Because I will be with you, you will strike down Midyan as easily as if they were just one man."
Darby Translation
And Jehovah said to him, I will certainly be with thee; and thou shalt smite Midian as one man.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord answered Gideon and said, "I will be with you, so you can defeat the Midianites as easily as if they were only one man."
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD said unto him: 'Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.'
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord said vnto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.
New Life Bible
But the Lord said to him, "For sure I will be with you. You will destroy Midian as one man."
New Revised Standard
The Lord said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike down the Midianites, every one of them."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said unto him - I will be with thee, - so shalt thou smite the Midianites, as one man.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Lord sayd vnto him, I wil therefore be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to him, I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.
Good News Translation
The Lord answered, "You can do it because I will help you. You will crush the Midianites as easily as if they were only one man."
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Mid'ianites as one man."
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord shall be with thee, and thou shalt smite Madiam as one man.
Christian Standard Bible®
“But I will be with you,” the Lord said to him. “You will strike Midian down as if it were one man.”
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midyanim as one man.
King James Version
And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said to him, "But I will be with you, and you will defeat Midian as if they are one man."
Literal Translation
And Jehovah said to him, Because I am with you, you shall strike Midian as one man.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE sayde vnto him: I will be wt the, so yt thou shalt smyte the Madianites, euen as though they were but one man.
THE MESSAGE
God said to him, "I'll be with you. Believe me, you'll defeat Midian as one man."
New American Standard Bible
Yet the LORD said to him, "I will certainly be with you, and you will defeat Midian as one man."
New King James Version
And the LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man."
Legacy Standard Bible
These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of their own benefit.

Contextual Overview

11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. 12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, "Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!" 13 "Sir," Gideon replied, "if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn't they say, ‘The Lord brought us up out of Egypt'? But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites." 14 Then the Lord turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!" 15 "But Lord," Gideon replied, "how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!" 16 The Lord said to him, "I will be with you. And you will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man." 17 Gideon replied, "If you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is really the Lord speaking to me. 18 Don't go away until I come back and bring my offering to you." He answered, "I will stay here until you return." 19 Gideon hurried home. He cooked a young goat, and with a basket of flour he baked some bread without yeast. Then, carrying the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, he brought them out and presented them to the angel, who was under the great tree. 20 The angel of God said to him, "Place the meat and the unleavened bread on this rock, and pour the broth over it." And Gideon did as he was told.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 6:12, Exodus 3:12, Joshua 1:5, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:14-16, Matthew 28:20, Mark 16:20, Acts 11:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:10 - the angel Genesis 28:15 - I am Numbers 14:15 - General 2 Kings 3:19 - And ye

Cross-References

Genesis 7:16
A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
Genesis 8:6
After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
2 Samuel 6:16
But as the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord , she was filled with contempt for him.
2 Kings 9:30
When Jezebel, the queen mother, heard that Jehu had come to Jezreel, she painted her eyelids and fixed her hair and sat at a window.
Ezekiel 41:16
were all paneled with wood, as were the frames of the recessed windows. The inner walls of the Temple were paneled with wood above and below the windows.
Ezekiel 42:3
One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.
Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!' But he will reply, ‘I don't know you or where you come from.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto him, surely I will be with thee,.... The Targum is,

"my Word shall be thy help,''

which was sufficient to answer all objections taken from his meanness, unworthiness, and weakness:

and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man; all together, and as easily as if thou hadst but one man to deal with, and the destruction be so entire and general that none shall be left.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:16. Thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. — Thou shalt as surely conquer all their host as if thou hadst but one man to contend with; or, Thou shalt destroy them to a man.


 
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