Judges 6
1 and to make: do son: descendant/people Israel [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and to give: give them LORD in/on/with hand: power Midian seven year
The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight. So the Lord handed them over to the Midianites for seven years.
2 and be strong hand: power Midian upon Israel from face: because Midian to make to/for them son: descendant/people Israel [obj] [the] cave which in/on/with mountain: mount and [obj] [the] cave and [obj] [the] stronghold
The Midianite oppression was so great that because of them the Israelites made themselves hiding places in mountains, caves, and fortifications.
3 and to be if to sow Israel and to ascend: rise Midian and Amalek and son: descendant/people East and to ascend: rise upon him
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other peoples from the east would come and attack them.
4 and to camp upon them and to ruin [obj] crops [the] land: country/planet till to come (in): towards you Gaza and not to remain recovery in/on/with Israel and sheep and cattle and donkey
They would set up their camps and destroy the country's crops as far away as Gaza. They didn't leave anything to eat in the whole of Israel, and they took for themselves all the sheep, cattle, and donkeys.
5 for they(masc.) and livestock their to ascend: rise and tent their (and to come (in): come *QK) like/as sufficiency locust to/for abundance and to/for them and to/for camel their nothing number and to come (in): come in/on/with land: country/planet to/for to ruin her
They arrived in huge numbers with their livestock and tents like swarms of locusts, with so many camels they couldn't be counted. They invaded the land to completely devastate it.
6 and to languish Israel much from face: because Midian and to cry out son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) LORD
The Israelites were made desperately poor by the Midianites and they called out to the Lord for help.
7 and to be for to cry out son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) LORD upon because Midian
When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of the Midianites,
8 and to send: depart LORD man prophet to(wards) son: descendant/people Israel and to say to/for them thus to say LORD God Israel I to ascend: establish [obj] you from Egypt and to come out: send [obj] you from house: home servant/slave
the Lord sent the Israelites a prophet. He told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought you out of Egypt; I led you out from the place where you were slaves.
9 and to rescue [obj] you from hand: power Egyptian and from hand: power all to oppress you and to drive out: drive out [obj] them from face: before your and to give: give [emph?] to/for you [obj] land: country/planet their
I saved you from the power of the Egyptians and from everyone who oppressed you. I expelled them before you and gave their land to you.
10 and to say [emph?] to/for you I LORD God your not to fear: revere [obj] God [the] Amorite which you(m. p.) to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet their and not to hear: obey in/on/with voice my
I warned you: I am the Lord your God. You must not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you're now living.’ But you didn't listen to me.”
11 and to come (in): come messenger: angel LORD and to dwell underneath: under [the] oak which in/on/with Ophrah which to/for Joash Abiezrite [the] Abiezrite and Gideon son: child his to beat wheat in/on/with wine press to/for to flee from face of Midian
The angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress there to hide it from the Midianites.
12 and to see: seer to(wards) him messenger: angel LORD and to say to(wards) him LORD with you mighty man [the] strength
The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, great man of courage!”
13 and to say to(wards) him Gideon please lord my and there LORD with us and to/for what? to find us all this and where? all to wonder his which to recount to/for us father our to/for to say not from Egypt to ascend: establish us LORD and now to leave us LORD and to give: give us in/on/with palm Midian
“Excuse me, my lord, but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?” Gideon replied. “Where are all his wonderful miracles that our forefathers reminded us about when they said, ‘Wasn't it the Lord who led us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has given up on us and has handed us over to the Midianites.”
14 and to turn to(wards) him LORD and to say to go: went in/on/with strength your this and to save [obj] Israel from palm Midian not to send: depart you
The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength that you have and save Israel from the Midianites. Aren't I the one sending you?”
15 and to say to(wards) him please Lord in/on/with what? to save [obj] Israel behold thousand: clan my [the] poor in/on/with Manasseh and I [the] little in/on/with house: household father my
“Excuse me, my lord, but how can I save Israel?” Gideon replied. “My family is the least important of the tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least important person of that family!”
16 and to say to(wards) him LORD for to be with you and to smite [obj] Midian like/as man one
“I will be with you,” the Lord told him. “You will defeat the Midianites as if they were just one man.”
17 and to say to(wards) him if please to find favor in/on/with eye your and to make: do to/for me sign: miraculous which/that you(m. s.) to speak: speak with me
“Please, Lord, if you think well of me, give me a sign that it's really you telling me this,” Gideon asked.
18 not please to remove from this till to come (in): come I to(wards) you and to come out: send [obj] offering: gift my and to rest to/for face: before your and to say I to dwell till to return: return you
“Don't leave until I come back and present my offering to you.” “I will remain here until you return,” he replied.
19 and Gideon to come (in): come and to make: offer kid goat and ephah flour unleavened bread [the] flesh to set: put in/on/with basket and [the] broth to set: put in/on/with pot and to come out: send to(wards) him to(wards) underneath: under [the] oak and to approach: bring
Gideon went and cooked a young goat, and baked some unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He carried them out and presented them to the angel under the oak tree.
20 and to say to(wards) him messenger: angel [the] God to take: take [obj] [the] flesh and [obj] [the] unleavened bread and to rest to(wards) [the] crag this and [obj] [the] broth to pour: pour and to make: do so
The angel of God told him, “Place the meat and the unleavened bread on this rock and pour the broth over them.” So Gideon did.
21 and to send: reach messenger: angel LORD [obj] end [the] staff which in/on/with hand his and to touch in/on/with flesh and in/on/with unleavened bread and to ascend: rise [the] fire from [the] rock and to eat [obj] [the] flesh and [obj] [the] unleavened bread and messenger: angel LORD to go: went from eye: seeing his
The angel of the Lord held out the staff he was holding and touched the meat and unleavened bread with the tip. Fire flamed from the rock and burned up the meat and unleavened bread. Then the angel vanished.
22 and to see: examine Gideon for messenger: angel LORD he/she/it and to say Gideon alas! Lord YHWH/God for as that: since as as to see: see messenger: angel LORD face to(wards) face
When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he cried out, “Oh no, Lord God! I've seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”
23 and to say to/for him LORD peace to/for you not to fear not to die
But the Lord told him, “Peace! Don't worry, you're not going to die.”
24 and to build there Gideon altar to/for LORD and to call: call by to/for him LORD Peace till [the] day: today [the] this still he in/on/with Ophrah Abiezrite [the] Abiezrite
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it “The Lord is Peace.” It's still there today, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
25 and to be in/on/with night [the] he/she/it and to say to/for him LORD to take: take [obj] bullock [the] cattle which to/for father your and bullock [the] second seven year and to overthrow [obj] altar [the] Baal which to/for father your and [obj] [the] Asherah which upon him to cut: cut
That night the Lord told Gideon, “Take your father's bull and a second bull seven years old, and tear down your father's altar of Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
26 and to build altar to/for LORD God your upon head: top [the] security [the] this in/on/with rank and to take: take [obj] [the] bullock [the] second and to ascend: offer up burnt offering in/on/with tree: wood [the] Asherah which to cut: cut
Then build an altar to the Lord your God in the proper way on hilltop. Using the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down as firewood, take the second bull and present it as a burnt offering.”
27 and to take: take Gideon ten human from servant/slave his and to make: do like/as as which to speak: speak to(wards) him LORD and to be like/as as which to fear [obj] house: household father his and [obj] human [the] city from to make: do by day and to make: do night
Gideon accompanied by ten of his servants did what the Lord had told him. However, because he was afraid of his family and the people of the town, he did it during the night rather than in the day.
28 and to rise human [the] city in/on/with morning and behold to tear altar [the] Baal and [the] Asherah which upon him to cut: cut and [obj] [the] bullock [the] second to ascend: offer up upon [the] altar [the] to build
Early in the morning when the people of the town got up, they saw that the altar of Baal had been torn down and the Asherah pole beside it had been cut down, with the second bull sacrificed on the altar that had just been built.
29 and to say man: anyone to(wards) neighbor his who? to make: do [the] word: thing [the] this and to seek and to seek and to say Gideon son: child Joash to make: do [the] word: thing [the] this
They asked one another, “Who did this?” They made inquiries and they were told, “Gideon, son of Joash, did it.”
30 and to say human [the] city to(wards) Joash to come out: send [obj] son: child your and to die for to tear [obj] altar [the] Baal and for to cut: cut [the] Asherah which upon him
“Hand over your son,” the people of the town ordered Joash. “He must die, because he has torn down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
31 and to say Joash to/for all which to stand: stand upon him you(m. p.) to contend [emph?] to/for Baal if you(m. p.) to save [emph?] [obj] him which to contend to/for him to die till [the] morning if God he/she/it to contend to/for him for to tear [obj] altar his
Joash replied to all those confronting him, “Are you arguing on Baal's behalf? Do you have to save him? Anyone who argues for him will be put to death by morning! If he is a god let him fight for himself against those who tore down his altar.”
32 and to call: call by to/for him in/on/with day [the] he/she/it Jerubbaal to/for to say to contend in/on/with him [the] Baal for to tear [obj] altar his
That day Gideon was called Jerub-baal, which means “Let Baal fight with him,” because he had torn down his altar.
33 and all Midian and Amalek and son: descendant/people East to gather together and to pass and to camp in/on/with Valley (of Jezreel) (Valley of) Jezreel
All the Midianites, Amalekites, and other peoples of the East gathered together and crossed over the Jordan. They camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
34 and spirit LORD to clothe [obj] Gideon and to blow in/on/with trumpet and to cry out Abiezer after him
The Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, calling Abiezrites to join him.
35 and messenger to send: depart in/on/with all Manasseh and to cry out also he/she/it after him and messenger to send: depart in/on/with Asher and in/on/with Zebulun and in/on/with Naphtali and to ascend: rise to/for to encounter: meet them
He sent messengers through the whole territory of Manasseh, calling them to join him, and also to Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so they also came and joined the others.
36 and to say Gideon to(wards) [the] God if there you to save in/on/with hand: power my [obj] Israel like/as as which to speak: speak
Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel through me as you promised,
37 behold I to set [obj] fleece [the] wool in/on/with threshing floor if dew to be upon [the] fleece to/for alone her and upon all [the] land: soil drought and to know for to save in/on/with hand: power my [obj] Israel like/as as which to speak: speak
then look—I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If the fleece is wet with dew but the ground is dry, then I will know that you are going to save Israel through me as you promised.”
38 and to be so and to rise from morrow and to crush [obj] [the] fleece and to drain dew from [the] fleece fullness [the] bowl water
That's what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he pressed on the fleece and squeezed out the dew, enough water to fill a bowl.
39 and to say Gideon to(wards) [the] God not to be incensed face: anger your in/on/with me and to speak: speak surely [the] beat to test please except [the] beat in/on/with fleece to be please drought to(wards) [the] fleece to/for alone her and upon all [the] land: soil to be dew
Then Gideon said to God, “Please don't get cross with me. Just let me make one more request. Let me do one more test with the fleece. This time let the fleece be dry and the whole ground covered with dew.”
40 and to make: do God so in/on/with night [the] he/she/it and to be drought to(wards) [the] fleece to/for alone her and upon all [the] land: soil to be dew
That night God did exactly that. The fleece alone was dry and the whole ground was covered with dew.
