the words, “Arise, for the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hands.” The promise of deliverance now poured forth from his own lips with complete confidence in God. Gideon had moved from fear to faith, and that is precisely the point of the section 6:33–7:18. The textual patterning of the Gideon narrative is carefully composed to highlight not the deliverance from Midian but the change that transpired in Gideon’s heart, and it is precisely there