Judges 6:11–23
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THE LORD CALLS GIDEON
11The angel of the Lordn came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah,o which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.”p
13Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
14The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and deliver Israel from the grasp of Midian. I am sending you!”q
15He said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Look, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s family.”
16“But I will be with you,”r the Lord said to him. “You will strike Midian down as if it were one man.”
17Then he said to him, “If I have found favor with you,s give me a signt 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 bushelA 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 Goda 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.”
Footnotes
- A an ephah
Cross references
- nEx 3:2
- oJos 18:23; Jdg 8:27,32
- pJos 1:14; 8:3; 2Kg 24:14; 1Ch 12:8
- qEx 3:10; 1Sm 9:16; 16:1; Jr 1:7; 25:15; Ezk 2:3–4; Mal 4:5; Jn 20:21
- rGn 26:3; Ex 3:12
- sGn 6:8; 18:3; Ex 33:12–13; Ru 2:2,10,13; Est 5:8; 7:3
- tEx 3:12; 1Sm 10:7,9; Is 7:11,14
- aGn 31:11; Ex 14:19; Jdg 13:6,9; 2Sm 14:17,20; 2Ch 36:16
- bJos 7:7; Jr 1:6; Ezk 4:14
- cGn 32:20; Ex 24:10–11; 33:19–23; Jdg 13:21–23; Is 6:5
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