Judges 6:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. ”

Judges 6:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Midian - See Genesis 25:2 note. They were remarkable not only for the vast number of their cattle Judges 6:5 ; Numbers 31:32-39 , but also for their great wealth in gold and other metal ornam...
Judges 6:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Depredations of the Midianites. D, whose phrases occur in Judges 6:1 f., Judges 6:6 , sees in the ebb and flow of Israel's fortune an index of their moral and spiritual condition. National s...
Judges 6:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sous. evil. Hebrew. ra'a' . App-44. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Judges 6:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Delivered them unto the hand of Midian - The Midianites were among the m...
Judges 6:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Israelites are oppressed seven years by the Midianites: Gideon is raised up by the Lord for their deliverance. The miracle of the fleece of wool. Before Christ 1267. Judges 6:1 . The...
Judges 6:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian. Untaught by the...
Judges 6:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Midian ] These desert nomads are regarded by the Hebrews as akin to them ( Genesis 36:35 cp. Exodus 2:15-21 ). They are found in the neighbourhood of the peninsula of Sinai, and also wander northw...
Judges 6:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Did evil. — Judges 2:11 ; Judges 3:12 ; Judges 4:1 . Midian. — Midian was the son of Adraham and Keturah ( Genesis 25:2 ), and from him descended the numerous and wealthy nomadic tribes which o...
Judges 6:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE DESERT HORDES; AND THE MAN AT OPHRAH Judges 6:1-14 JABIN king of Canaan defeated and his nine hundred chariots turned into ploughshares, we might expect Israel to make at last a start in it...
Judges 6:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

at the Mercy of Midian Judges 5:24-31 ; Judges 6:1-6 What a contrast our reading suggests between those that love the Lord and go from strength to strength in the undimming luster and influenc...
Judges 6:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

After the passing of these forty years, sin again brought punishment. The people passed under the oppression of Midian. It was oppression of the severest kind and lasted for seven years. A terrible p...
Judges 6:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS In the progress of the history of Israel, we are here presented in this Chapter, with an account of Israel ' s rebellion by sin against God, after the forty years rest which the Lord had gi...
Judges 6:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord ,.... After the death of Deborah and Barak, during whose life they kept to the pure worship of God, and who, perhaps, lived pretty near t...
Judges 6:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Ver. 1. And the children of Israel did evil. ] This was the bad fruit...
Judges 6:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the children of Israel did evil The Israelites, having forgot the signal deliverance which God had wrought for them by Deborah and Barak, were condemned to a new state of misery and oppression,...
Judges 6:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE OPPRESSION OF MIDIAN (vv.1-10) However, Israel again repeated the evil of departing from the Lord. This time the Lord used Midian to put them under a yoke of oppression which lasted seven ye...
Judges 6:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Inroads of the Midianites. B. C. 1249. 1 And the children of Israel did evil in the...
Judges 6:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JUDGES CHAPTER 6 The Midianites oppress Israel, Judges 6:1-6 . A prophet raised rebukes them, Judges 6:7-10 . An angel calls Gideon to Israel's deliverance, Judges 6:11-16 ; confirms him b...
Judges 6:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 6. Gideon. In this chapter we have an account of the distressed condition Israel was in as a result of continual Midianite invasion; of a prophet being sent to them to reprieve them from t...
Judges 6:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ISRAEL’S RELAPSE INTO SIN, AND THEIR OPPRESSION BY THE MIDIANITES. Judges 6:1-10 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 6:1 . Did evil , etc.] Not continued to do evil, though that is implied (pp. 158, 186...
Judges 6:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Judges 6-8 In the first words of Gideon we find the key to his character. (1) He was a man who felt deeply the degradation of his people. He could not enjoy his own harvest while the Midianites were...
Judges 6:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 6:1 . The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian, the descendants of Abraham's fourth son by Keturah, who oppressed them for seven years. Genesis 25:2 . Judges 6:3 . The children o...
Judges 6:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens . .. and caves and strongholds. Divine punishment through natural means Thus God gets at men through various means. The Mi...
Judges 6:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 6:1 Midian . In Numbers 22:7 we read of the Midianites as allied with the Moabites in their hostility to the children of Israel, and we find them willing agents of Bala...
Judges 6:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, after the forty years of rest; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. The Midianites, descendants of Abraham...
Judges 6:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 ; Genesis 25:2 ; Habakkuk 3:7 ; Judges 2:13 ; Judges 2:14 ; Judges 2:19 ; Judges 2:20 ; Leviticus 26:14-46 ; Nehemiah 9:26-29 ; Numbers 25:17 ; Numbers 25:18 ; Psalms...
Judges 6:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Of Midian — For although the generality of the Midianites had been cut off by Moses about two hundred years ago, yet many of them doubtless fled into the neighbouring countries, whence afterwards t...

Judges 6:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 6:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 6:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 6:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 6:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 6:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 6:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 6:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 6:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 6:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 6:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 6:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 6:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 6:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 6:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 6:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 6:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 6:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 6:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 6:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 6:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Judges 6:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 6:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 6:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 6:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 6:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 6:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes