Gewilde Bybelverse vanaf Judges 6

The LORD’s messenger appeared and said to him, “The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”

Then the LORD himself turned to him and said, “You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?”

The LORD said to him, “Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Gideon said to him, “But Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.”

The LORD’s angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.

Gideon built an altar for the LORD there, and named it “The LORD is on friendly terms with me.” To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Gideon said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

The LORD said to him, “You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD turned them over to Midian for seven years.