Gideon is Visited by the Angel of the Lord

¹¹ After this, the angel of the Lord arrived and sat down in the shade of^[a] the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash, a descendant of Abiezer, while his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press in order to safeguard it^[b] from the Midianites. ¹² The angel of the Lord appeared to him and told him, “The Lord is with you, you valiant warrior!”

¹³ But Gideon replied, “Right… Sir, if the Lord is with us, then why has all of this happened to us? And where are all of his miraculous works that our ancestors recounted to us when they said, ‘The Lord brought us up from Egypt, didn’t he?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us over to Midian!”