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John Gill's Exposition on Judges 6:11
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there came an angel of the Lord, etc.] This was not the prophet before mentioned, as Ben Gersom thinks, but an angel of God, as expressed, and not a created one, but the Angel of Jehovah’s presence, the Word and Son of God, and who is expressly called Jehovah himself, (<070614>Judges 6:14,23,24) and sat under an oak; or stayed there a while, as Kimchi interprets it, seeing, according to his observation, angels are not said to sit, but stand: which was in Ophrah, that pertaineth to Joash the Abiezrite; which shows that this Ophrah is different from a city of this name in the tribe of Benjamin, (<061823>Joshua 18:23) for the oak that was in it, under which the angel sat, belonged to Joash an Abiezrite, a descendant of Abiezer, son of the sister of Gilead, who was the son of Machir the son of Manasseh, (<061702>Joshua 17:2 <130717>1 Chronicles 7:17,18,14), it is called by Josephusf128 Ephra, and by Jeromf129 Ephrata: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites; lest they should take it away, and bereave his father’s family of their sustenance, as they were wont to do, wherever they could find it; and all circumstances attending this affair were on this account; he threshed it himself, this he chose to do, and not trust his servants, lest it should be discovered; and he beat the wheat out with a staff, that it might be more silently done, and not with oxen, which was the usual way of treading out corn, who, bellowingf130, would discover it; and this was done not on a threshing floor, but where a winepress stood, where there could be no suspicion of such work being doing.
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