Judges 6:7-10
What is written? (ESV)
When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites, the Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage. And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land. And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed my voice.
What does it say?
The people cried out to God and He sent a prophet to remind them that He had delivered them from slavery in Egypt. He had also delivered them from subsequent oppressors, enabling them to possess their land. He had warned them not to obey their gods, but they did not obey.
What is its immediate context?
Sometime between roughly 1,400 and 1,100 BC when the children of Israel were living as tribal units and came to be known as a time when “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6) Even at this point, “The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian”. (6:1) Gideon would be called by God to deliver them in this case.
How Judges 6:7-10 is applied across Bible answers
Was the land promise fulfilled in 1948?
God says that He "gave you [Israel] their land" on which they were currently dwelling.
