Judges 6:18 (DRB)

Passage

And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.

Nearby Context

Judges 6:16 And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.

Judges 6:17 And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me:

Judges 6:18 And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.

Judges 6:19 So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him.

Judges 6:20 And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the flesh and the unleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth thereon. And when he had done so,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "depart", "hence", "till", "return", "thee", "bring", "sacrifice", and "offer". 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 If I have found..." into verse 19's "So Gedeon went in and boiled a...", 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.