Thou mighty man of valor - Known to God to be such, though not yet known to be such either by himself or his countrymen (compare Lu…

The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. —Three words in the Hebrew: Jehovah immekâ, Gibbor. It was onc…

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him
He stayed some time under the oak, and Gideon being busy in threshing, too…

Gideon was a man of a brave, active spirit, yet lived in obscurity during those times; he is here stirred up to undertake something great. It was v…