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The angel of ADONAI appeared to him and said to him: “You valiant hero! ADONAI is with you!”

ADONAI turned to him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Isra’el from the hands of Midyan. Haven’t I sent you?”

ADONAI said to him, “Because I will be with you, you will strike down Midyan as easily as if they were just one man.”

“Excuse me, sir,” answered Gid‘on, “but if ADONAI is with us, then why is all this happening to us? And where are all his miracles our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Didn’t ADONAI bring us up from Egypt?’ For now ADONAI has abandoned us and handed us over to Midyan.”

But Gid‘on answered him, “Forgive me, my Lord, but with what am I to save Isra’el? Why, my family is the poorest in M’nasheh, and I’m the youngest person in my father’s house!”

Then the angel of ADONAI came and sat under the pistachio tree in ‘Ofrah that belonged to Yo’ash the Avi‘ezri. His son Gid‘on was threshing wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from Midyan.

Then Gid‘on built an altar there to ADONAI and called it “ADONAI-Shalom”; to this day it remains in ‘Ofrah of the Avi‘ezri.

Gid‘on replied, “If indeed you favor me, would you mind giving me a sign that it is really you talking with me?

But ADONAI reassured him, “Shalom to you, don’t be afraid, you won’t die!”

But the people of Isra’el did what was evil from ADONAI’s perspective, so ADONAI handed them over to Midyan for seven years.