Scripture
Judges 7
8 passages from 6 books in the Christian Reader library reference Judges 7.
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Wait at the gates of wisdom's door; ministers are teachers under Christ (Ephesians 4:11). We read of pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers (Judges 7:16). Ministers are earthen vessels, but these pitchers have lamps within them to light souls to Heaven.
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God would make Israel victorious, and what way does he go in? He lessens Gideon's army (Judges 7:2). The people that are with you are too many: he reduces the army of thirty-two thousand to three hundred, and by taking away the means of victory, makes Israel victorious.
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3. When it may be for the good of his people, he will raise up deliverance to them (1 Chronicles 11:14). The Lord saved them by a great deliverance. God reigning as King, can save any way; by contemptible means, the blowing of trumpets, and blazing of lamps (Judges 7:20). By con…
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So when flesh failed in the Wilderness, the people of Israel could not devise how God should spread them a Table there; there was no plowing or sowing, nothing to be seen but wild Beasts and Serpents; the Lord made the Heavens a Granary, and rained down bread upon them; here he…
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Truly it is the Lord which deprives them of reason, and plunges them into frenzies, and that in such wise, that they bend against themselves the very weapons, which in times past they had drawn forth to massacre the Church with. And thus they turn their sword points one against…
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By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. Judges 7:2 — Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, mine own hand has saved me. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, and T. Green, for D. Henchman, at the Corner Shop on the South-side of the Town-Hous…
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Their god is made of gold, and to it they bow down. Those who bowed down on their knees to drink of the waters were accounted unfit soldiers for Gideon (Judges 7:6). So are those unfit for Christ, that stoop immoderately to the love of earthly things.
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This also was a remarkable type of the victory of Christ and his church over his enemies, by the pouring out of the Spirit with the preached gospel, as is evident by the manner of it, which Gideon was immediately directed to of God; which was not by human sword or bow, but only…
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