I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land.
I said to you, “I am the LORD your God.
You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.”
But you have not listened to my voice.’”
The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite.
His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.