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Midian Oppresses Israel
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, 2 and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
3vvv Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them, 4 encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys. 5 For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable and they entered the land to ravage it.
6Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
7Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian, 8 [He] sent them a prophet, who told them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 9 I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt [and] all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10 And I said to you:‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear[fn] the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
11The Call of Gideon
Then the angel[fn] of the LORD came and sat down under the oak[fn] in Ophrah that belonged to Joash vvv the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to [Gideon] and said“The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied“if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying,‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
14The LORD[fn] turned to him and said,“Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”
15“Please, my Lord,” [Gideon] replied“how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
16“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied“and you will strike down [all] the Midianites as one man.”
17Gideon answered“If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that [it is] You speaking with me. 18 Please do not depart from this [place] until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set [it] before You.”
And [the LORD] said,“I will stay until you return.”
19So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour.[fn] He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
20And the angel of God said to him,“Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay [them] on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And [Gideon] did so.
21Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared 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 it [was] the angel of the LORD, he said,“Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
23But the LORD said to him,“Peace [be] with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”
24So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace.[fn] To this day it stands in Ophrah vvv of the Abiezrites.
25Gideon Destroys Baal’s Altar
On that very night the LORD said to [Gideon],“Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. 26 Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
27So Gideon took ten vvv of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did [it] by night [rather than] in the daytime.
28When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar. 29 “Who did this?” they said to one another.
And after they had investigated thoroughly they were told,“Gideon son of Joash did it.”
30Then the men of the city said to Joash,“Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
31But Joash said to all who stood against him,“Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If [Baal] is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”
32So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal,[fn] that is to say,“Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down [Baal’s] altar.
33The Sign of the Fleece
Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over [the Jordan], and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
34So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who blew the ram’s horn and rallied the Abiezrites behind him. 35 Calling them to arms, [Gideon] sent messengers throughout Manasseh, as well as Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, so that they came up to meet him.
36Then Gideon said to God,“If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said, 37 then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
38And that is what happened. When [Gideon] arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew vvv a bowlful of water.
39Then Gideon said to God,“Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry and the ground covered with dew.”
40And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
6:10 Or worship
6:11 Or Angel; also in verses 12, 20, 21, and 22; corresponding pronouns may also be capitalized.
6:11 Or terebinth or great tree; also in verse 19
6:14 LXX The angel of the LORD or The Angel of the LORD; also in verse 16
6:19 An ephah is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 25.5 pounds or 11.6 kilograms of flour).
6:24 Hebrew YHWH Shalom
6:32 Jerubbaal probably means let Baal contend.
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