Teks -- Judges 6:34 (NET)

6:34 The Lord’s spirit took control of Gideon. He blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

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Wesley: Jdg 6:34 - The spirit came

Inspiring him with extraordinary wisdom, and courage, and zeal to vindicate God's honour, and his country's liberty. The Hebrew is, The Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon; clothed him as a robe, to put honour upon him; clothed him as a coat of mail to put a defence upon him. Those are well clad that are thus clothed.

Wesley: Jdg 6:34 - Abiezer

That is, the Abiezrites, his kindred, and their servants, and others; who finding no harm coming to him for destroying Baal, but rather a blessing from God, in giving him strength and courage for so great an attempt, changed their minds, and followed him as the person by whose hands God would deliver them.

JFB: Jdg 6:34 - the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon

Called in this sudden emergency into the public service of his country, he was supernaturally endowed with wisdom and energy commensurate with the magnitude of the danger and the difficulties of his position. His summons to war was enthusiastically obeyed by all the neighboring tribes. On the eve of a perilous enterprise, he sought to fortify his mind with a fresh assurance of a divine call to the responsible office. The miracle of the fleece was a very remarkable one--especially, considering the copious dews that fall in his country. The divine patience and condescension were wonderfully manifested in reversing the form of the miracle. Gideon himself seems to have been conscious of incurring the displeasure of God by his hesitancy and doubts; but He bears with the infirmities of His people.

Clarke: Jdg 6:34 - The Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon

The Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon - He was endued with preternatural courage and wisdom.

TSK: Jdg 6:34 - the Spirit // came upon // blew // Abiezer // was gathered

the Spirit : Jdg 3:10, Jdg 13:25, Jdg 14:19, Jdg 15:14; 1Sa 10:6, 1Sa 11:6, 1Sa 16:14; 1Ch 12:18; 2Ch 24:20; Psa 51:11; 1Co 12:8-11

came upon : Heb. clothed, Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27

blew : Jdg 3:27; Num 10:3

Abiezer : Jdg 6:11, Jdg 8:2; Jos 17:2

was gathered : Heb. was called

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Poole: Jdg 6:34 - Came upon Gideon // Abi-ezer

Came upon Gideon inspiring him with extraordinary wisdom, and courage, and zeal, to vindicate God’ s honour and his country’ s liberty. Compare 1Ch 12:18 2Ch 24:20 .

Abi-ezer , i.e. the Abi-ezrites, his kindred, And their servants, and others; who finding no harm coming to him for the destroying of Baal, but rather a blessing from God, in giving him strength and courage for so great and dangerous an attempt, changed their minds, and followed him as the person by whose hands God would deliver them.

Haydock: Jdg 6:34 - Him

Him. He first calls his relations, and then the neighbouring tribes, to march against the enemy. He had before declared God's orders, and was recognized as judge and deliverer of Israel; so that no one objects to his exercising this act of sovereignty.

Gill: Jdg 6:34 - But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon // and he blew a trumpet // and Abiezer was gathered after him

But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon,.... Not the spirit of prophecy, as Maimonides ^x, who calls this spirit the first degree of prophecy, but a spirit of fortitude and courage, as the Targum; the Spirit of God filled him, or, as in the Hebrew text, "clothed" ^y him with zeal, strength, and might, moved and animated him to engage with this great body of people come into the land, to ravage and waste it, and to attempt the deliverance of Israel from their bondage:

and he blew a trumpet; as an alarm of war, and as a token to as many as heard to resort to him, and join with him in the common cause against the enemy:

and Abiezer was gathered after him; the Abiezrites, one of the families of the tribe of Manasseh, of which Gideon and his father's house were; and even it is probable the inhabitants of Ophrah, who were Abiezrites, being now convinced of their idolatry, and having entertained a good opinion of Gideon as a man of valour, and who, in the present emergence, they looked upon as an hopeful instrument of their deliverance, and therefore joined him.