Judges 6:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ Then I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God. Do not ·worship [fear; reverence] the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you now live.’ But you did not ·obey me [^Llisten to my voice].”

The Angel of the Lord Visits Gideon

¹¹ The angel of the Lord [^Cangelic spokesperson for God, sometimes identified with the Lord himself; 2:1; Gen. 16:7; Ex. 14:19; 23:20] came and sat down under the oak tree at Ophrah that belonged to Joash, ·one of the Abiezrite people [^Lthe Abiezrite]. Gideon, Joash’s son, was ·separating some wheat from the chaff [threshing/^Lbeating out wheat] in a winepress to keep the wheat from the Midianites [^Cin a pit hidden from sight]. ¹² The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and said, “The Lord is with you, ·mighty [courageous] warrior!”