Judges 6:5-19

⁵For they and all their flocks came with their tabernacles, and at the likeness of locusts they full-filled all things, and a multitude of men and of camels was without number, and they wasted whatever thing they touched.

⁶And Israel was made low greatly in the sight of Midian. And Israel cried to the Lord,

⁷and asked help against Midianites;

⁸and he sent to them a man, a prophet, and he spake to them, The Lord God of Israel saith these things, I made you to go up from Egypt, and I led you out of the house of servage,

⁹and I delivered you from the hand of Egyptians, and of all the enemies that tormented you; and I casted them out at your entering, and I gave to you the land of them;

¹⁰and I said, I am the Lord your God; dread ye not the gods of Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; and ye would not hear my voice.

¹¹And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak, that was in Ophrah, and it pertained to Joash, the father of the meine of Abiezrites. And when Gideon, the son of Joash, threshed, and purged wheat in a presser, that he should flee Midian,

¹²an angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said, The Lord be with thee, thou strongest of men.

¹³And Gideon said to him, My lord, I beseech, if the Lord is with us, why then have all these evils taken us? Where be the marvels of him, which our fathers told, and said, The Lord hath led us out of Egypt? For now he hath forsaken us, and hath betaken us into the hand of Midian.

¹⁴And the Lord beheld to him, and said, Go thou in this strength of thee, and thou shalt deliver Israel from the hand of Midian; know thou, that I have sent thee.

¹⁵And Gideon answered, and said, My lord, I beseech, in what thing shall I deliver Israel? Lo! my meine is the lowest in Manasseh, and I am the least in the house of my father.

¹⁶And the Lord said to him, I shall be with thee, and thou shalt smite Midian as one man.

¹⁷And Gideon said, If I have found grace before thee, give to me a sign, that thou, that speakest to me, art sent of God’s part;

¹⁸go thou not away from hence, till I turn again to thee, and bring sacrifice, and offer to thee. Which answered, I shall abide thy coming.

¹⁹And so Gideon went in, and seethed a kid, and took therf loaves of a bushel of meal, and the flesh in a pannier; and he put the broth of the flesh in a pot, and he bare all these things under the oak, and offered those to him.