Judges 6:11-24

11Then 1the angel of the Lord came and sat under the 2oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the 3Abiezrite as his son 4Gideon 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 5now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14The Lord 6looked at him and said, “7Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” 158He said to Him, “O Lord, 9how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in 10Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” 1611But the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall 12defeat Midian as one man.” 17So 13Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me 14a sign that it is You who speak with me. 18Please 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.”

19Then Gideon went in and 15prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an 16ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket 17and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the 18oak and presented them. 20The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour 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 19fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the Lord 20vanished from his sight. 2221When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the Lord, 22he said, “Alas, O Lord 23God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.” 23The Lord said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.” 24Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and named it 24The Lord is Peace. To this day it is still 25in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.