Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo'ash the Abiez'rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid'ianites.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

An oak - “ The oak,” indicating it as a well-known tree, still standing in the writer’s days.

There was another Ophrah in Benjamin ([…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

There came an angel of the Lord. — It is obviously absurd to suppose, as some have done, that a prophet is intended, like the one …

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

And there came an angel of the Lord
This was not the prophet before mentioned, as Ben Gersom thinks, but an angel of…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

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…

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