And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and the sons of Israel made for themselves from before Midian dens in the mountains and in the caves and in the strongholds.
And they camped against them and destroyed the produce of the land, until coming to Gaza, and they did not leave behind sustenance of life in Israel, neither flock nor calf nor donkey.
For they themselves and their livestock were coming up and carrying along their tents, and they were coming as locusts in multitude; and to them and to their camels there was no number, and they were coming into the land of Israel to destroy it
And the Lord sent a man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel, and he said to them: Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: I am the one who brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you out of a house of slavery.
and I rescued you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all those oppressing you, and I drove them out from before you, and I gave you their land
And I said to you, I am the Lord your God: you shall not fear the gods of the Amorite, in whom you dwell in their land; and you did not listen to my voice.
And an angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ephra, that of Joas the father of Abiezer; and Gideon his son was beating out wheat in a winepress, to escape from before Midian.
And Gideon said to him, In me, my lord, and if the Lord is with us, why then has all this evil found us, and where are all his wonders, which our fathers recounted to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? And now he has thrust us away and given us into the hand of Midian.
Do not move from here until my coming to you, and I will bring my sacrifice and will set it before you. And he said, I am; I will sit until your return.
And Gideon entered and made a kid of goats and unleavened cakes of flour, and he put the meat on the basket and poured the broth into the pot, and he brought it out to him under the oak and bowed down
And the angel of the Lord stretched out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes, and fire was kindled from the rock and devoured the meat and the unleavened cakes, and the angel of the Lord departed from before his eyes
And it happened in that night, and the Lord said to him, Take the fatted calf of your father, a calf seven years old, and you shall tear down the altar of Baal, which is your father’s, and the grove on it you shall cut down
And you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, who appeared to you on the top of this mountain, in the arrangement, and you shall take the bull calf and offer up a whole burnt offering with the wood of the grove that you shall cut down.
And Gideon took thirteen men from his servants and did as the Lord spoke to him, and it happened, because he feared the house of his father and the men of the city, not to do by day, that he did by night.
And the men of the city rose early in the morning, and behold, the altar of Baal had been torn down, and the grove that was upon it had been cut down, and the fatted calf had been offered up as a whole burnt offering on the altar that had been built.
And the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, and let him die, because he has torn down the altar of Baal and because he cut down the grove that was upon it.
And Joas said to the men who were standing against him, Do you now judge for Baal, or do you save him? Whoever will bring a lawsuit against him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, he himself will take vengeance on him, because he has demolished his altar.
And he sent messengers into all Manasseh, and he cried out also after him, and he sent messengers into Asher and into Zebulun and into Naphtali, and they went up to meet him
Behold, I am laying the fleece of wool on the threshing floor, and if there is dew on the fleece alone and on all the ground dryness, then I will know that you are saving Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
And Gideon said to God, let not your anger be inflamed against me, and I will speak yet once; let me test yet once in the fleece: and let there be dryness on the fleece only, but on all the ground let there be dew.