Judges 6:11–18

Gideon Is Visited

¹¹Then ^athe angel of the Lord came and sat under the ¹oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the ^bAbiezrite as his son ^cGideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

¹²The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior.”

¹³Then 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 ^anow the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

¹⁴The Lord ¹looked at him and said, “^aGo in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”

^15aHe said to Him, “O Lord, ¹how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in ^bManasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

^16aBut the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall ¹defeat Midian as one man.”

¹⁷So ¹Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me ^aa sign that it is You who speak with me.

¹⁸“Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”