So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.
- KJV And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
- NKJV And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety.
- NASB Then the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and saved you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security.
- NLT Then the Lord sent Gideon, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel to save you, and you lived in safety.
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Quick answer
The Lord sent deliverers such as Jerubbaal (Gideon), Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, granting Israel safety. God Himself raised up saviors when they cried out.
Overview
These judges illustrate God's faithfulness in repeatedly rescuing His people. Samuel's inclusion of himself shows he too was God's instrument of deliverance, not a self-appointed ruler. The point is that the Lord, working through His chosen deliverers, has always been Israel's true and sufficient King.
Cross-references & the web
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- Judg 6:32So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.
- Judg 4:6She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
- Judg 11:1–33Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
- Judg 8:29and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.
- 1 Sam 7:13So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
- Judg 6:14The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”
- Judg 8:35They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.
- Judg 13:1–16Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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