Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 256
The History of the People of Israel
5 Israel, or sheep, or 0x, or ass. For they, and their cattle with them, advanced with their tents, coming in such immense numbers, both of themselves and their camels, that they could not be counted, and went
6 over the country destroying it. Thus Israel was thoroughly exhausted before Midian. (1%.0. 1249.) QA }§r2¤c!;2r zzlyuriz in
slefarmaiiun mth tu aimnhmz Sin.
IO Then the Children of Israel criedto the EvER—L1v1NG. And when the Israelites cried to the EVER-1.1v1NG on account of Midian, the EvER·L1v1NG sent a man, a preacher, to the sons of Israel and he said to them; ‘The Evaxmivime Geo of Israel
says thus,—-—‘I brought you from the Mitzeraim, and brought you from the House of Bondage, and delivered you from the power of your opponents, and swept them before you,and gave you this country. Then I said to you, I am your EvEn·L1v1No Gon. You shall not reverence the gods of the Amorites, in whose country you reside,·—but you would not listen to (Bac. 1249.) @2 rails 11;:1::1 (Swann II I2 tu leak his éatiuu. Afterwards the Messenger of the
EVER-LIVING went and sat under the oak which is at Afrah, belonging to Yoash, and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a wine cellar, to hide it from the Midianites, and the Messenger of the EvER·L1v1NG looked The EVER-Lu/1NG is with you, brave What,
Sirk If the E*vER—1.tv1N<; is with us., then why has all this come ? And where are all His wonders that our fathers related to us, telling about the bringing us up from Mitzeraim? For now the Ev1;R·L1v1NG has for- saken us, and put us under the foot But the Noble Man I turned to him
I tran_slate_the Hebrew word jehovah,
asa high title, like our Lord, for a Peer, as it is evident this preacher was not the Creator,.but a man as we a1·e.~——I·`. F . Go with your courage and rescue Israel from the hand of Midian E Have I not sent you Me, sir?
How can I rescue Israel? The regiments of Manasseh have failed! and I am the youngest of my father’s But the Noble Man answered to
Because I will be with you! And you shall defeat the Midianites like a single man} lf now. I
have found favour in your eyes, and you have done me the kindness of speaking with me, do not remove from here until I come back to you, when I will bring my present, and present it to youf I will sit down until you returnf Then Gideon went and killed a
goat’s kid, and baked an unfermented cake, and placed the meat on a tray, and put the broth in zi basin, and brought to him under the oak, and presented it. Then the divine Messenger said to
Take the meat and the biscuit, and ascend to the peak of Luz, and And he did so, when the Messenger of the l€v1£R~ LIVING extended the end of the staff which he had in his hand, and touched the meat and the biscuit, and fire came from the rock and consumed the meat and the biscuit! Then the Messenger ofthe EvER—LIvING went from his sight; and Gideon perceived that he was a Messenger from the EVERIIVING; so Gideon exclaimed, ‘ Ah! Great LGRD! I have certainly seen a Messenger ofthe l£vI¤:R—L1VING And the NOBLE Peace to you 2 Fear notl You will not die! Consequently Gideon built there
an altar to the l+ZvER·LIvING, and it The Evan-L1v1No’s Peace/’ to this day. It is near Afrath of Aliazer. In the night again the EvEI<—1.1v.1No
Take the bull of your father’s herd, and a second seven year bull, and overthrow your father’s altar to Bal, and break the Shrine that is beside it, and build an altar to-I your lives-Livins Gob, on the top of this refuge on the mound, and take the two bulls, and offer as a burnt-offering with the wood of the shrine which you have broken up.’ 1:-(K I6 *7 18 20 21 22 23 26
