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the Week of Proper 17 / Ordinary 22
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Judges 6:18

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."

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."
Amplified Bible
"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."
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 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

11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. The angel came as Joash's son Gideon was beating out grain where grapes are crushed, to save it from the Midianites. 12 The angel of the Lord showed himself to Gideon and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O powerful soldier." 13 Gideon said to him, "O sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all His powerful works which our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt?' But now the Lord has left us alone. He has put us under the power of Midian." 14 The Lord looked at him and said, "Go in this strength of yours. And save Israel from the power of Midian. Have I not sent you?" 15 Gideon said to Him, "O Lord, how can I save Israel? See, my family is the least in Manasseh. And I am the youngest in my father's house." 16 But the Lord said to him, "For sure I will be with you. You will destroy Midian as one man." 17 Gideon said to Him, "If I have found favor in Your eyes, show me something to prove that it is You Who speaks with me. 18 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." 19 Then Gideon went into his house and got a young goat ready. He made bread without yeast from a basket of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the water from boiling the meat in a pot. Then he brought them out to him under the tree and set them down in front of him. 20 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the bread without yeast and lay them on this rock. Then pour out the water." Gideon 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
This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat, that goes down a cubit from the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. And make it with first, second, and third floors.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat, you and all your family. For I have seen that you only are right and good at this time.
Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives all went into the large boat because of the water of the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, all went into the large boat.
Genesis 17:4
"See, My agreement is with you. You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:7
I will make My agreement between Me and you and your children after you through their whole lives for all time. I will be God to you and to your children's children after you.
Genesis 17:21
But I will make My agreement with Isaac, who will be born to Sarah at this time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, go into your rooms. Close your doors behind you. Hide for a little while until God's anger is past.
Hebrews 11:7
Because Noah had faith, he built a large boat for his family. God told him what was going to happen. His faith made him hear God speak and he obeyed. His family was saved from death because he built the boat. In this way, Noah showed the world how sinful it was. Noah became right with God because of his faith in God.

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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