Gideon and Angel of Jehovah
Scriptures | Judges 6:7-24 |
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Judges Chapter 67 When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites,8 the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, āThus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage.9 And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.10 And I said to you, āI am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.āBut you have not obeyed my voice.ā11 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, āThe LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.ā13 And Gideon said to him, āPlease, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, āDid not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?āBut now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.ā14 And the LORD turned to him and said, āGo in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?ā15 And he said to him, āPlease, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fatherās house.ā16 And the LORD said to him, āBut I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.ā17 And he said to him, āIf now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.18 Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.ā And he said, āI will stay till you return.ā19 So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.20 And the angel of God said to him, āTake the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.ā And he did so.21 Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.22 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, āAlas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.ā23 But the LORD said to him, āPeace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.ā24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites. |
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