Judges 6:22
And Gedeon saw that he was an angel of the Lord; and Gedeon said, Ah, ah, Lord my God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the Lord said to him, Peace be to you, fear not, you shall not die.
Cross References
Genesis 32:30And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.
Exodus 33:20And God said, You shall not be able to see my face; for no man shall see my face, and live.
Deuteronomy 5:24and you⌃ said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: + 5:24 Or, by this day. this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.
Judges 13:21And the angel appeared no more to Manoe and to his wife: then Manoe knew that this was an angel of the Lord.
Isaiah 6:5And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Judges 6:12-25
The Call of Gideon. ( b. c. 1249.) 11 And there came an angel of the Lord , and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of,… Read the whole commentary →