Judges 6:22

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When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
  • Deut 5:26 : 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
  • Judg 13:21-23 : 21 The LORD’s angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the LORD’s angel. 22 Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!” 23 But his wife said to him,“If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
  • Isa 6:5-8 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.” 6 But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said,“Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” 8 I heard the voice of the Lord say,“Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” I answered,“Here I am, send me!”
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • John 12:41 : 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 (I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
  • Deut 5:24 : 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“Here I have seen one who sees me!”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 6:10-14
    5 verses
    81%

    10I said to you,“I am the LORD your God! Do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’”

    11Gideon Meets Some Visitors The LORD’s angel came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.

    12The LORD’s angel appeared and said to him,“The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”

    13Gideon said to him,“Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,‘Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

    14Then the LORD himself turned to him and said,“You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?”

  • Judg 6:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23The LORD said to him,“You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

    24Gideon built an altar for the LORD there, and named it“The LORD is on friendly terms with me.” To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • Judg 6:16-21
    6 verses
    77%

    16The LORD said to him,“Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

    17Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

    18Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you.” The LORD said,“I will stay here until you come back.”

    19Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

    20God’s angel said to him,“Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.

    21The LORD’s angel touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The LORD’s angel then disappeared.

  • Judg 13:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the LORD’s angel went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.

    21The LORD’s angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the LORD’s angel.

    22Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”

  • Judg 6:36-37
    2 verses
    75%

    36Gideon said to God,“If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.

    37Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it is dry, then I will be sure that you will use me to deliver Israel, as you promised.”

  • Judg 7:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. The man said,“Look! I had a dream. I saw a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.”

    14The other man said,“Without a doubt this symbolizes the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”

    15Gideon Routs the Enemy When Gideon heard the report of the dream and its interpretation, he praised God. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said,“Get up, for the LORD is handing the Midianite army over to you!”

  • Num 22:31
    73%

    31Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground.

  • Judg 6:27
    72%

    27So Gideon took ten of his servants and did just as the LORD had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.

  • Judg 13:15-18
    4 verses
    72%

    15Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”

    16The LORD’s angel said to Manoah,“If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD, you should offer it.”(He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the LORD’s angel.)

    17Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true.”

    18The LORD’s angel said to him,“You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.”

  • Judg 7:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Gideon Reduces the Ranks Jerub-Baal(that is, Gideon) and his men got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. The Midianites were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

    2The LORD said to Gideon,“You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. Israel might brag,‘Our own strength has delivered us.’

  • Judg 13:6
    72%

    6The woman went and said to her husband,“A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God’s angel– he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

  • Judg 6:39
    71%

    39Gideon said to God,“Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.”

  • 1 Chr 21:16
    70%

    16David looked up and saw the LORD’s angel standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

  • Judg 7:17
    70%

    17He said to them,“Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

  • Gen 32:30
    70%

    30So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

  • Zech 3:6
    70%

    6Then the angel of the LORD exhorted Joshua solemnly:

  • Exod 3:2
    70%

    2The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked– and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

  • Luke 2:9
    69%

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

  • Judg 6:29
    69%

    29They said to one another,“Who did this?” They investigated the matter thoroughly and concluded that Gideon son of Joash had done it.

  • Gen 31:11
    69%

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

  • Luke 1:12
    69%

    12And Zechariah, visibly shaken when he saw the angel, was seized with fear.

  • Num 22:24
    69%

    24Then the angel of the LORD stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.

  • Zech 1:9
    69%

    9The Interpretation of the First Vision Then I asked one nearby,“What are these, sir?” The angelic messenger who replied to me said,“I will show you what these are.”

  • Gen 18:2
    69%

    2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

  • Judg 8:3
    69%

    3It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” When he said this, they calmed down.

  • Exod 3:6
    69%

    6He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

  • Ezek 1:28
    69%

    28like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

  • Judg 6:34
    68%

    34The LORD’s Spirit took control of Gideon. He blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

  • Zech 4:5
    68%

    5He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded,“No, sir.”

  • Judg 13:10
    68%

    10The woman ran at once and told her husband,“Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”

  • Gen 32:1
    68%

    1Jacob Wrestles at Peniel So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.