Judges 6:18 (WEB)

Passage

Please don’t go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”

Nearby Context

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

Judges 6:17 He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

Judges 6:18 Please don’t go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”

Judges 6:19 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

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

Study Lenses

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

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