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"My Lord," Gideon said to him, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds of which our fathers told us when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' For now the LORD has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian." (Judges 6, 13)
The LORD turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you." (Judges 6, 14)
But he answered him, "Please, my lord, how can I save Israel? My family is the meanest in Manasseh, and I am the most insignificant in my father's house." (Judges 6, 15)
"I shall be with you," the LORD said to him, "and you will cut down Midian to the last man." (Judges 6, 16)
the angel of the LORD stretched out the tip of the staff he held, and touched the meat and unleavened cakes. Thereupon a fire came up from the rock which consumed the meat and unleavened cakes, and the angel of the LORD disappeared from sight. (Judges 6, 21)
Gideon, now aware that it had been the angel of the LORD, said, "Alas, Lord GOD, that I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!" (Judges 6, 22)
The LORD answered him, "Be calm, do not fear. You shall not die." (Judges 6, 23)
So Gideon built there an altar to the LORD and called it Yahweh-shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. (Judges 6, 24)
That same night the LORD said to him, "Take the seven-year-old spare bullock and destroy your father's altar to Baal and cut down the sacred pole that is by it. (Judges 6, 25)
You shall build, instead, the proper kind of altar to the LORD, your God, on top of this stronghold. Then take the spare bullock and offer it as a holocaust on the wood from the sacred pole you have cut down." (Judges 6, 26)
So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had commanded him. But through fear of his family and of the townspeople, he would not do it by day, but did it at night. (Judges 6, 27)
The spirit of the LORD enveloped Gideon; he blew the horn that summoned Abiezer to follow him. (Judges 6, 34)
