Judges 6:18 (ASV)

Passage

Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.

Nearby Context

Judges 6:16 And Jehovah said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

Judges 6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.

Judges 6:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.

Judges 6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

Judges 6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "depart", "hence", "pray", "thee", "until", "come", and "bring". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "depart" and "hence", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 17's "And he said unto him If now..." into verse 19's "And Gideon went in and made ready...", so "depart" and "hence" belong inside that flow. In Judges context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "depart" and "hence" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.