Judges 6:18 (LSB)

Passage

Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and I bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”

Nearby Context

Judges 6:16 But Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike down Midian as one man.”

Judges 6:17 So Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your eyes, then do a sign for me that it is You who speak with me.

Judges 6:18 Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and I bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”

Judges 6:19 So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.

Judges 6:20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock and pour out the broth.” And he did so.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 17's "So Gideon said to Him If now..." into verse 19's "So Gideon went in and prepared a...", so "please" and "depart" 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 "please" and "depart" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.