Judges 6:7-16

7Now it came about when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord on account of Midian, 8that the Lord sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and 1he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of 2slavery. 9I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land, 10and I said to you, “I am the Lord your God; you 3shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not 4obeyed Me.”’”

11Then 5the angel of the Lord came and sat under the 6oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the 7Abiezrite as his son 8Gideon 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 9now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14The Lord 10looked at him and said, “11Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” 1512He said to Him, “O Lord, 13how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in 14Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” 1615But the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall 16defeat Midian as one man.”