11. there came an angel of the Lord —He appeared in the character and equipments of a traveller ( Judges 6:21 ), who sat down in the shade to enjoy a little refreshment and repose. Entering into conversation on the engrossing topic of the times, the grievous oppression of the Midianites, he began urging Gideon to exert his well-known prowess on behalf of his country. Gideon, in replying, addresses him at first in a style equivalent (in Hebrew ) to "sir," but afterwards gives to him the name usually applied to God. an oak — Hebrew, "the oak"—as famous in after-times. Ophrah —a city in the tribe of Manasseh, about sixteen miles north of Jericho, in the district belonging to the family of Abiezer ( Judges 6:21- : ). his son Gideon threshed wheat by the wine-press —This incident tells emphatically the tale of public distress. The small quantity of grain he was threshing, indicated by his using a flail instead of the customary treading of cattle—the unusual place, near a wine-press, under a tree, and on the bare ground, not a wooden floor, for the prevention of noise—all these circumstances reveal the extreme dread in which the people were living. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"
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