Judges 6:13

And Gedeon said to him, Be gracious + 6:13 Heb. כי a particle of entreaty, here rendered literally. with me, my Lord: but if the Lord is with us, why have these evils found us? and where are all his miracles, which our fathers have related to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? and now he has cast us out, and given us into the hand of Madiam.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

In Context

12And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, you mighty in strength.

14And the angel of the Lord turned to him, and said, Go in this your strength, and you shall save Israel out of the hand of Madiam: behold, I have sent you.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:22And the babes leaped within her; and she said, If it will be so with me, why is this to me? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

Numbers 14:14Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen by them face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart change, and you will not listen, and you shall go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,

2 Chronicles 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while you⌃ are with him; and if you⌃ seek him out, he will be found of you; but if you⌃ forsake him, he will forsake you.

Psalms 44:1My heart + 44:1 Lit. eructavit. has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer. 1

Psalms 77:7That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. 1

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 →

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