Judges 6:22

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When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, 'Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!'

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  • Gen 32:30 : 30 Jacob said, 'Please tell me your name.' But he replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' Then he blessed him there.
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 But He added, 'You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.'
  • Deut 5:26 : 26 For who among all flesh has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and lived?
  • Judg 13:21-23 : 21 The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that he was the angel of the Lord. 22 Manoah said to his wife, "We are sure to die, because we have seen God!" 23 But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things, nor let us hear such things now."
  • Isa 6:5-8 : 5 Then I said, "Woe to me! For I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts." 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me. He had a glowing coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is removed, and your sin is atoned for." 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?" And I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God; the one and only Son, who is in the closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known.
  • John 12:41 : 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 At that time, I stood between the LORD and you to declare His word to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:
  • Deut 5:24 : 24 And you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 So Hagar called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, 'You are the God who sees me,' for she said, 'Have I truly seen the One who sees me here?'

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  • Judg 6:10-14
    5 verses
    81%

    10And I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live.’ But you did not listen to my voice.

    11Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

    12The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, 'The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'

    13Gideon said to him, 'Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about, saying, ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.'

    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 6:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23But the Lord said to him, 'Peace be with you. Do not be afraid; you will not die.'

    24So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it 'The Lord is Peace.' To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • Judg 6:16-21
    6 verses
    77%

    16The Lord said to him, 'I will be with you, and you will strike down Midian as if it were one man.'

    17Gideon replied, 'If I have found favor in your sight, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me.'

    18Please do not leave here until I return to you and bring my offering and set it before you.' And the Lord said, 'I will stay until you return.'

    19So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and from an ephah of flour made unleavened bread. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out and offered them under the terebinth tree.

    20The angel of God said to him, 'Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.' And Gideon did so.

    21Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared from his sight.

  • Judg 13:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20When the flame rose from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell facedown to the ground.

    21The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that he was the angel of the Lord.

    22Manoah said to his wife, "We are sure to die, because we have seen God!"

  • Judg 6:36-37
    2 verses
    75%

    36Gideon said to God, 'If you are truly going to use me to save Israel as you have promised,

    37Look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and the ground remains dry, then I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said.

  • Judg 7:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13When Gideon arrived, he overheard a man telling his companion about a dream. He said, "Listen, I had a dream: a round loaf of barley bread tumbled into the Midianite camp, struck a tent with such force that it collapsed and fell completely flat."

    14His companion responded, "This can only mean the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian and the entire camp into his hands."

    15When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He returned to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands."

  • Num 22:31
    73%

    31Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

  • Judg 6:27
    72%

    27So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the city, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

  • Judg 13:15-18
    4 verses
    72%

    15Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Please stay here, and we will prepare a young goat for you."

    16The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Even if you detain me, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord." (Manoah did not know he was an angel of the Lord.)

    17Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?"

    18The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding."

  • Judg 7:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Early in the morning, Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people with him set up camp beside the spring of Harod. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was to the north of them, by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

    2The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many people with you for me to hand Midian over to them, lest Israel boast against me, claiming, 'My own strength has delivered me.'

  • Judg 13:6
    72%

    6Then the woman went to her husband and told him, "A man of God came to me. His appearance was like that of an angel of God, very awe-inspiring. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name.

  • Judg 6:39
    71%

    39Then Gideon said to God, 'Please do not be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Allow me to test just once more with the fleece. Let the fleece remain dry, while dew covers the ground around it.'

  • 1 Chr 21:16
    70%

    16David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

  • Judg 7:17
    70%

    17He said to them, "Watch me and do as I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.

  • Gen 32:30
    70%

    30Jacob said, 'Please tell me your name.' But he replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' Then he blessed him there.

  • Zech 3:6
    70%

    6The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua,

  • Exod 3:2
    70%

    2The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that the bush was burning with fire, but it was not consumed.

  • Luke 2:9
    69%

    9Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

  • Judg 6:29
    69%

    29They asked one another, 'Who did this?' When they investigated and inquired, they were told, 'Gideon son of Joash did it.'

  • Gen 31:11
    69%

    11In the dream, the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'

  • Luke 1:12
    69%

    12When Zechariah saw him, he was startled, and fear fell upon him.

  • Num 22:24
    69%

    24Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides.

  • Zech 1:9
    69%

    9Then I asked, 'What are these, my lord?' The angel who was speaking with me answered, 'I will show you what they are.'

  • Gen 18:2
    69%

    2Looking up, he saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed down to the ground.

  • Judg 8:3
    69%

    3God gave the leaders of Midian—Oreb and Zeeb—into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?' At this, their anger toward him subsided when he said this.

  • Exod 3:6
    69%

    6Then he said, 'I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' At this, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

  • Ezek 1:28
    69%

    28Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell face down and heard the voice of one speaking.

  • Judg 6:34
    68%

    34Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

  • Zech 4:5
    68%

    5The angel who was speaking with me responded and said, 'Do you not know what these are?' I replied, 'No, my lord.'

  • Judg 13:10
    68%

    10The woman hurried and ran to tell her husband, saying to him, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me again."

  • Gen 32:1
    68%

    1Early in the morning, Laban rose and kissed his sons and daughters, blessed them, and left, returning to his home.