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Gideon

6Once again the people of Israel sinned against the LORD, so he let the people of Midian rule them for seven years.H1121H3478H6213H7451H5869H3068H3068H5414H3027H4080H7651H8141
2The Midianites were stronger than Israel, and the people of Israel hid from them in caves and other safe places in the hills.H3027H4080H5810H3478H6440H4080H1121H3478H6213H4492H2022H4631H4679
3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites would come with the Amalekites and the desert tribes and attack them.H3478H2232H4080H5927H6002H1121H6924H5927
4They would camp on the land and destroy the crops as far south as the area around Gaza. They would take all the sheep, cattle, and donkeys, and leave nothing for the Israelites to live on.H2583H7843H2981H776H935H5804H7604H4241H3478H7716H7794H2543
5They would come with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. They and their camels were too many to count. They came and devastated the land,H5927H4735H168H935H935H1767H697H7230H1581H4557H935H776H7843
6and Israel was helpless against them.H3478H3966H1809H6440H4080H1121H3478H2199H3068
7Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help against the Midianites,H1121H3478H2199H3068H182H4080
8and he sent them a prophet who brought them this message from the LORD, the God of Israel: "I brought you out of slavery in Egypt.H3068H7971H376H5030H1121H3478H559H559H3068H430H3478H5927H4714H3318H1004H5650
9I rescued you from the Egyptians and from the people who fought you here in this land. I drove them out as you advanced, and I gave you their land.H5337H3027H4714H3027H3905H1644H6440H5414H776
10I told you that I am the LORD your God and that you should not worship the gods of the Amorites, whose land you are now living in. But you have not listened to me."H559H3068H430H3372H430H567H776H3427H8085H6963
11Then the LORD's angel came to the village of Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was threshing some wheat secretly in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.H935H4397H3068H3427H424H6084H3101H33H1121H1439H2251H2406H1660H5127H6440H4080
12The LORD's angel appeared to him there and said, "The LORD is with you, brave and mighty man!"H4397H3068H7200H559H3068H1368H2428
13Gideon said to him, "If I may ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if the LORD is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us the LORD used to do - how he brought them out of Egypt? The LORD has abandoned us and left us to the mercy of the Midianites."H1439H559H994H113H3426H3068H4672H6381H1H5608H559H3068H5927H4714H3068H5203H5414H3709H4080
14Then the LORD ordered him, "Go with all your great strength and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I myself am sending you."H3068H6437H559H3212H3581H3467H3478H3709H4080H7971
15Gideon replied, "But Lord, how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least important member of my family."H559H994H136H4100H3467H3478H504H505H1800H4519H6810H1H1004
16The LORD answered, "You can do it because I will help you. You will crush the Midianites as easily as if they were only one man."H3068H559H5221H4080H259H376
17Gideon replied, "If you are pleased with me, give me some proof that you are really the LORD.H559H4672H2580H5869H6213H226H1696
18Please do not leave until I bring you an offering of food." He said, "I will stay until you come back."H4185H935H3318H4503H3240H6440H559H3427H7725
19So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to the LORD's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.H1439H935H6213H5795H1423H4682H374H7058H1320H7760H5536H7760H4839H6517H3318H424H5066
20The angel told him, "Put the meat and the bread on this rock, and pour the broth over them." Gideon did so.H4397H430H559H3947H1320H4682H3240H1975H5553H8210H4839H6213
21Then the LORD's angel reached out and touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick he was holding. Fire came out of the rock and burned up the meat and the bread. Then the angel disappeared.H4397H3068H7971H7097H4938H3027H5060H1320H4682H5927H784H6697H398H1320H4682H4397H3068H1980H5869
22Gideon then realized that it was the LORD's angel he had seen, and he said in terror, "Sovereign LORD! I have seen your angel face-to-face!"H1439H7200H4397H3068H1439H559H162H136H3069H3651H7200H4397H3068H6440H6440
23But the LORD told him, "Peace. Don't be afraid. You will not die."H3068H559H7965H3372H4191
24Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and named it "The LORD is Peace." (It is still standing at Ophrah, which belongs to the clan of Abiezer.)H1439H1129H4196H3068H7121H3073H3117H6084H33
25That night the LORD told Gideon, "Take your father's bull and another bull seven years old, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the symbol of the goddess Asherah, which is beside it.H3915H3068H559H3947H1H6499H7794H8145H6499H7651H8141H2040H4196H1168H1H3772H842
26Build a well-constructed altar to the LORD your God on top of this mound. Then take the second bull and burn it whole as an offering, using for firewood the symbol of Asherah you have cut down."H1129H4196H3068H430H7218H4581H4634H3947H8145H6499H5927H5930H6086H842H3772
27So Gideon took ten of his servants and did what the LORD had told him. He was too afraid of his family and the people in town to do it by day, so he did it at night.H1439H3947H6235H582H5650H6213H3068H1696H3372H1H1004H582H5892H6213H3119H6213H3915
28When the people in town got up early the next morning, they found that the altar to Baal and the symbol of Asherah had been cut down, and that the second bull had been burned on the altar that had been built there.H582H5892H7925H1242H4196H1168H5422H842H3772H8145H6499H5927H4196H1129
29They asked each other, "Who did this?" They investigated and found out that Gideon son of Joash had done it.H559H376H7453H6213H1697H1875H1245H559H1439H1121H3101H6213H1697
30Then they said to Joash, "Bring your son out here, so that we can kill him! He tore down the altar to Baal and cut down the symbol of Asherah beside it."H582H5892H559H3101H3318H1121H4191H5422H4196H1168H3772H842
31But Joash said to all those who confronted him, "Are you arguing for Baal? Are you defending him? Anyone who argues for him will be killed before morning. If Baal is a god, let him defend himself. It is his altar that was torn down."H3101H559H5975H7378H1168H3467H7378H4191H1242H430H7378H5422H4196
32From then on Gideon was known as Jerubbaal, because Joash said, "Let Baal defend himself; it is his altar that was torn down."H3117H7121H3378H559H1168H7378H5422H4196
33Then all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the desert tribes assembled, crossed the Jordan River, and camped in Jezreel Valley.H4080H6002H1121H6924H622H3162H5674H2583H6010H3157
34The spirit of the LORD took control of Gideon, and he blew a trumpet to call the men of the clan of Abiezer to follow him.H7307H3068H3847H1439H8628H7782H44H2199H310
35He sent messengers throughout the territory of both parts of Manasseh to call them to follow him. He sent messengers to the tribes of Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they also came to join him.H7971H4397H4519H2199H310H7971H4397H836H2074H5321H5927H7125
36Then Gideon said to God, "You say that you have decided to use me to rescue Israel.H1439H559H430H3426H3467H3478H3027H1696
37Well, I am putting some wool on the ground where we thresh the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on the wool but not on the ground, then I will know that you are going to use me to rescue Israel."H3322H1492H6785H1637H2919H1492H2721H776H3045H3467H3478H3027H1696
38That is exactly what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the wool and wrung enough dew out of it to fill a bowl with water.H7925H4283H2115H1492H2115H4680H2919H1492H5602H4393H4325
39Then Gideon said to God, "Don't be angry with me; let me speak just once more. Please let me make one more test with the wool. This time let the wool be dry, and the ground be wet."H1439H559H430H639H2734H1696H6471H5254H6471H1492H2721H1492H776H2919
40That night God did that very thing. The next morning the wool was dry, but the ground was wet with dew.H430H6213H3915H2721H1492H2919H776


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