The LORD looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Lord, Jehova. Bible.—The Chal. and Septuagint have, “the angel of the Lord,” as the best interpreters understand it. Calmet.—Upon him, with benevolence and an air of authority, that he might know that he was speaking to some one more than man. Bible.—Strength, with which I have endued thee. Menochius.—Though Gedeon was naturally brave, he was no more disposed to attack the Madianites than the rest of his dispirited countrymen; and, even after he was strengthened from above, he was so conscious of his own inability to effect so great a deliverance, that he stood in need of the most convincing miracles, to make him act as the judge of Israel. Bible.