Mistari Maarufu ya Biblia kutoka Judges 6

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The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty warrior.”

Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian; I hereby commission you.”

The LORD said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike down the Midianites, every one of them.”

Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.”

He responded, “But sir, how can I deliver Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”

Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

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.

Then he said to him, “If now I have found favor with you, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.

But the LORD said to him, “Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die.”

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.