Judges 6:11 (DRB)

Passage

And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,

Nearby Context

Judges 6:9 And delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians, and of all the enemies that afflicted you: and I cast them out at your coming in, and gave you their land.

Judges 6:10 And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear not the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell. And you would not hear my voice.

Judges 6:11 And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,

Judges 6:12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men.

Judges 6:13 And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Madian.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "angel", "lord", "came", "under", "ephra", "belonged", "joas", and "father". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "angel" and "lord", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "And I said I am the Lord..." into verse 12's "The angel of the Lord appeared to...", so "angel" and "lord" 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 "angel" and "lord" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.