¹⁷Then he said to him, “If I have found favor with you,^s give me a sign^t that you are speaking with me. ¹⁸Please do not leave this place until I return to you. Let me bring my gift and set it before you.”

And he said, “I will stay until you return.”

¹⁹So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from a half bushel^A of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.

²⁰The angel of God^a said to him, “Take the meat with the unleavened bread, put it on this stone, and pour the broth on it.” So he did that.

²¹The angel of the Lord extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire came up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

²²When Gideon realized that he was the angel of the Lord, he said, “Oh no, Lord God!^b I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”^c

²³But the Lord said to him, “Peace to you. Don’t be afraid, for you will not die.” ²⁴So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace.^A It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites today.

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Footnotes

A an ephah
A Yahweh-shalom

Cross references

s Gn 6:8; 18:3; Ex 33:12–13; Ru 2:2,10,13; Est 5:8; 7:3
t Ex 3:12; 1Sm 10:7,9; Is 7:11,14
a Gn 31:11; Ex 14:19; Jdg 13:6,9; 2Sm 14:17,20; 2Ch 36:16
b Jos 7:7; Jr 1:6; Ezk 4:14
c Gn 32:20; Ex 24:10–11; 33:19–23; Jdg 13:21–23; Is 6:5