Judges 6:11–24

Gideon

¹¹Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash ^lthe Abiezrite, while his son ^mGideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. ¹²And the ⁿAngel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is ^owith you, you mighty man of valor!”

¹³Gideon said to Him, “O ³my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And ^pwhere are all His miracles ^qwhich our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has ^rforsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

¹⁴Then the Lord turned to him and said, ^s“Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. ^tHave I not sent you?”

¹⁵So he said to Him, “O ⁴my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed ^umy clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

¹⁶And the Lord said to him, ^v“Surely I will be with you, and you shall ⁵defeat the Midianites as one man.”

¹⁷Then he said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then ^wshow me a sign that it is You who talk with me. ^18xDo not depart from here, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set it before You.”

And He said, “I will wait until you come back.”

^19ySo Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot; and he brought them out to Him under the terebinth tree and presented them. ²⁰The Angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and ^zlay them on this rock, and ^apour out the broth.” And he did so.

²¹Then the Angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and ^bfire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

²²Now Gideon ^cperceived that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! ^dFor I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.”

²³Then the Lord said to him, ^e“Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.” ²⁴So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it ⁶The-Lord-Is-Peace. To this day it is still ^fin Ophrah of the Abiezrites.