Passage Research
Judges 6 — Sermon Preparation
An angel calls Gideon to deliver Israel from Midian while he hides wheat in a winepress; that same night Gideon tears down his father's Baal altar and the Asherah pole beside it. Below is a research summary for Judges 6, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 40
- verses
- 679 / 225
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 12
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Judges 6 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| גִּדְעוֹן | Gidʻôwn | H1439 | 11 | Gidon |
| מִדְיָן | Midyân | H4080 | 11 | Midjan |
| גָּזַּה | gâzzah | H1492 | 7 | fleece |
| מַלְאָךְ | malʼâk | H4397 | 9 | messenger, angel |
| מִזְבֵּחַ | mizbêach | H4196 | 8 | altar |
| עָלָה | ʻâlâh | H5927 | 9 | ascend, high |
| אֲבִי הָעֶזְרִי | ʼĂbîy hâ-ʻEzrîy | H33 | 4 | Abiezrite |
How preachers through history handled this text
12 public-domain excerpts on Judges 6, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Gideon was a man of a brave, active spirit, yet in obscurity through the times: he is here stirred up to undertake something great. It was very sure that the Lord was with him, when his Angel was with him. Gideon was weak in faith, which made it hard to reconcile the assurances of the presence of God with the distress to which Israel was brought. The Angel answered his objections. He told him to appear and act as Israel's deliverer, there needed no more. Bishop Hall says, While God calls Gideon valiant, he makes him so. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Judges 6:11–24 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Midian— Judg 6:1
- Ophrah 2— Judg 6:11
- Egypt— Judg 6:13
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