Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
When he had built his altar he called it “﻿Jehovah-shalom,﻿” which was done by way of thanksgiving for peace received. The inscription declares that “﻿Jehovah is our peace.﻿” Blessed be his name this day. We have entered on the battles of peace, for the Lord God is with us, and with his people we will go forth to win the peace which he has promised. It was a psalm in two words; it was a song of one verse, infinitely sweet. “﻿Jehovah-shalom﻿”: the Lord our peace.
