Judges 6:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

In Ophrah — In Manasseh: there was another Ophrah in Benjamin, Joshua 18:23. The Abi — ezrite — Of the posterity of Abiezer. Threshed — Not with oxen, as the manner was, Deuteronomy 25:4, but with a staff to prevent discovery. Wine — press — In the place where the wine — press stood, not in the common floor.

Judges 6:11

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 Gideonc threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.