The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Neh 9:26-29Jdg 2:19-20Deu 28:15-68Jdg 2:11Jdg 2:13-14Num 25:15-18Num 31:1-3Lev 26:14-46 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds. 1Sa 13:6Heb 11:381Sa 14:11Lev 26:17Deu 28:47-48Rev 6:15 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them. Jdg 3:13Jdg 6:33Jdg 7:121Ki 4:30Gen 29:1Isa 65:21-22Jdg 8:10Job 1:3 They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey. Lev 26:16Deu 28:51Mic 6:15Deu 28:33Jer 49:9-10Deu 28:30-31Gen 10:19Gen 13:10 For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it. Jdg 7:12Jdg 8:10Isa 60:6Isa 13:20Jer 46:23Jer 49:29Jer 49:321Sa 30:17 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD. Jdg 3:9Jer 5:17Psa 106:43-44Psa 50:15Jdg 3:15Hos 5:15Isa 26:16Mal 1:4
When the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of Midian, The LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage. Ezk 20:5-32Psa 136:10-16Isa 63:9-14Jdg 2:1-3Neh 9:9-12 I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land. Psa 44:2-3 I said to you, “I am the LORD your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’” Jer 10:22Ki 17:35-39Jer 9:13Exo 20:2-3Jdg 2:2Jer 3:13Jer 3:25Jer 42:21
The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites. Jos 17:2Heb 11:32Jdg 13:3Jdg 8:2Gen 16:7Isa 63:9Gen 48:16Jdg 13:18-20 The LORD’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!” Jos 1:5Luk 1:28Jdg 2:18Jos 1:9Jdg 13:3Exo 3:12Luk 1:11Act 18:9-10
Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.” Psa 77:7-92Ch 15:2Isa 59:1-2Psa 44:1Deu 30:17-18Deu 31:17Gen 25:22Isa 41:17
The LORD looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?” Jos 1:5-9Heb 11:341Sa 12:11Jdg 4:61Ch 14:9-10Heb 11:32
He said to him, “O Lord, 1 how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” Exo 3:111Sa 9:21Exo 4:10Jer 1:6Eph 3:81Co 15:91Sa 18:23Jer 50:45
The LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.” Jos 1:5Act 11:21Exo 3:12Mrk 16:20Isa 41:10Isa 41:14-16Mat 28:20Jdg 6:12
He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. Psa 86:17Exo 33:13Isa 7:11Exo 33:16Gen 15:8-17Isa 38:7-8Jdg 6:36-40Exo 4:1-9 Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” Gen 18:5Gen 18:3Jdg 13:15Gen 19:3
He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah 2 of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. Gen 18:6-8Lev 2:4Jdg 13:15-19
The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” 1Ki 18:33-34Jdg 13:19
He did so. Then the LORD’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the LORD’s angel departed out of his sight. Lev 9:241Ki 18:382Ch 7:11Ch 21:26Jdg 13:20
Gideon saw that he was the LORD’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!” Gen 32:30Exo 33:20Deu 5:26Jhn 1:18Deu 5:24Deu 5:5Gen 16:13Isa 6:5-8
The LORD said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.” Dan 10:19Gen 43:23Jhn 14:27Jhn 20:26Gen 32:30Jhn 20:19Psa 85:8Rom 1:7
Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it “The LORD is Peace.” 3 To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Gen 22:14Exo 17:15Ezk 48:35Jdg 8:32Jer 33:16Gen 33:20Jdg 21:4Jer 23:6
That same night, the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it. Exo 34:132Co 6:15-17Jdg 3:7Act 5:29Mat 10:371Ki 18:21Mat 6:24Act 4:19 Then build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.” 1Co 14:331Co 14:402Sa 24:18
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night. 1Th 2:4Jhn 2:5Deu 4:1Gal 1:16Jhn 15:14Jhn 3:2Mat 16:24Psa 112:5
When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built. They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?”
When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”
Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.” Act 26:9Jhn 16:2Php 3:6Jer 26:11Jer 50:38 Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!” 1Co 8:4Eph 5:11Jer 10:11Jer 10:51Ki 18:271Ki 18:291Ki 18:40Deu 13:5-18 Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, 4 saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.” 1Sa 12:112Sa 11:21Jdg 7:1Hos 9:10Jer 11:13
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. Jos 17:16Jdg 6:3Isa 8:9-10Psa 27:2-3Rom 8:35-391Ch 5:191Ki 18:451Ki 21:1 But the LORD’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him. 2Ch 24:201Ch 12:18Jdg 3:10Jdg 3:27Rom 13:14Psa 51:111Co 12:8-111Sa 11:6 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. 2Ch 30:6-12Jdg 4:6
Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken, Jdg 6:14Mat 16:12Ki 20:9Psa 103:13-14Exo 4:1-9Jdg 6:17-20 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.” Hos 14:5Mat 15:24Mat 10:5-6Psa 72:6Deu 32:2Hos 6:3-4Psa 147:19-20
It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. Isa 35:7
Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.” Gen 18:32Isa 50:2Psa 107:33-35Mat 21:43Act 13:46Isa 35:6-7Isa 43:19-20Mat 8:12
God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.