Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord,.... On the top of the rock where he had laid his provisions, and which had been consumed by fire issuing out of it, as a token of divine acceptance, and as an assurance of his destroying the Midianites as easily and quickly as the fire had consumed them, and therefore had great encouragement to erect an altar here for God:and called it Jehovahshalom; the Lord is peace, the author and giver of peace, temporal, spiritual, and eternal; so Jarchi,"the Lord is our peace,''a fit name for the angel that appeared to him, who was no other than the man of peace; who is our peace, the author of peace between God and man.
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Judges 6:24
Judges 6:24
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over in silence; and here begins the story of another distress and…Judges 6 — OverviewJudges 6 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJudges 6:1, The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian; Judges 6:8, A prophet rebukes them; Judges 6:11, An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance; Judges 6:17, Gideon’s present is consumed with fire; Judges…Judges 6 — OverviewJudges 6 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn this chapter we have an account of the distressed condition Israel was in through the Midianites, Jud 6:1, of a prophet being sent unto them to reprieve them for their sins, Jud 6:7 of an angel appearing to Gideon,…Judges 6:11-24Judges 6:11-24 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIt is not said what effect the prophet's sermon had upon the people,
but we may hope it had a good effect, and that some of them at least
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Jehovahshalom: that is, The Lord send peace, Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 33:16; Ezekiel 48:35
Ophrah: Judges 8:32