and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
I shall begin by asking you to dwell for a minute upon Gideon’s sigh for peace; for he loved not war, but pined for quiet. He called the name of the altar “﻿Jehovah-shalom,﻿” which the margin reads, “﻿The Lord send peace.﻿” You see therefore that deeper down in his spirit than any desire for warlike honor there was a yearning after peace. He wanted not the spoils of princes; he only desired to plow, and sow, and reap in peace.
