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22 Then Gideon realized that he had been talking to the angel of the Lord. So he shouted, “Oh, Lord God! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”

23 But the Lord said to Gideon, “Calm down![a] Don’t be afraid! You will not die!”[b]

24 So Gideon built an altar there to worship the Lord and named it “The Lord is Peace.” It still stands in the city of Ophrah, where the Abiezer family lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:23 Calm down Literally, “Peace.”
  2. Judges 6:23 You will not die Gideon thought he would die because he had seen the Lord face to face.

22 When Gideon realized(A) that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”(B)

23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid.(C) You are not going to die.”(D)

24 So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called(E) it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah(F) of the Abiezrites.

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