6. Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites, and the Israelites cried out to Yahweh.
7. When the Israelites cried out to Yahweh on account of the Midianites,
8. Yahweh sent a prophet to the Israelites, and he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt; I brought you from the house of slavery.
9. I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors, and drove them out from before you; and I gave you their land.
10. And I said to you, ‘I am Yahweh your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.’ But you have not listened to my voice.”
11. The angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak that was at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash the Abiezrite; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
12. The angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty warrior.”