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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.

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