Judges 6:11
ContextNETBible | The Lord’s angelic messenger 1 came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon 2 was threshing 3 wheat in a winepress 4 so he could hide it from the Midianites. 5 |
XREF | Ge 48:16; Jos 17:2; Jos 18:23; Jud 2:1-5; Jud 5:23; Jud 6:14-16; Jud 8:2; Jud 13:3,18-20; Isa 63:9; Heb 11:32 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive. sn The 2 tn Heb “Now Gideon his son…” The Hebrew circumstantial clause (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + predicate) breaks the narrative sequence and indicates that the angel’s arrival coincided with Gideon’s threshing. 3 tn Heb “beating out.” 4 sn Threshing wheat in a winepress. One would normally thresh wheat at the threshing floor outside the city. Animals and a threshing sledge would be employed. Because of the Midianite threat, Gideon was forced to thresh with a stick in a winepress inside the city. For further discussion see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 63. 5 tn Heb “Midian.” |