Hebrew YHWH-Shalom (יְהוָה שָׁלוֹם). Given by Gideon after the angel of the LORD assures him he will not die after seeing the divine messenger face-to-face. The name marks a moment of fearful encounter resolved into peace.
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Matthew Henry
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J U D G E S CHAP. VI. Nothing that occurred in the quiet and peaceable times of Israel is recorded; the forty years' rest after the conquest of Jabin is passed over in silence; and here begins the story of another distress and another deliverance, by Gideon, the fourth…
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