Jehovah Shalom: The Lord is my peace

JEHOVAH-SHALOM (Jĕ hō vah-shä lōmʹ) Place-name meaning “Yahweh is peace.” Name Gideon gave to the altar he built at Ophrah (Judg. 6:24).

Brand, Chad et al., eds. “Jehovah-Shalom.” Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary 2003: 879. Print.

Judges 6:11–27 “Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!” Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?” So he said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” And the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as…”