Judges 6:22
And Gideon saw that he was an angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, Ah, ah, Lord my God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the Lord said to him, Peace be to thee, fear not, thou shalt not die.
Cross References
Genesis 32:30And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.
Exodus 33:20And God said, Thou shalt not be able to see my face; for no man shall see my face, and live.
Deuteronomy 5:24and ye said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.
Judges 13:21And the angel appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife: then Manoah 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 mine 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 →