The Koine Bible

And the sons of Israel did the evil before the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.

And the hand of Midian prevailed over Israel, and the sons of Israel made for themselves because of Midian the clefts in the mountains and the caves and the hanging places

And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel had sown, that Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east would come up against them also.

And they encamped against them and destroyed their produce as far as coming to Gaza, and they did not leave sustenance of life in the land of Israel, neither ox nor donkey among the flocks.

For they themselves and their possessions were coming up, and their tents were arriving, as locusts for multitude; and to them and to their camels there was no number, and they were coming into the land of Israel and were destroying it

And Israel became very poor because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord

from before Midian

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 he who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and brought you out of the house of your slavery.

and I rescued you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and I cast them out from before you and 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 which you yourselves shall dwell in their land, and you did not listen to my voice.

And an angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth that was in Ephratha, that of Joash the father of Esdri and Gideon his son, beating out wheat in the winepress to flee from the face of Midian

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, mighty one of the forces

And Gideon said to him, In me, my lord, and if the Lord is with us, why then have all these evils 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 cast us out and given us into the hand of Midian.

And the angel of the Lord turned to him and said, Go in this your strength, and you shall save Israel from the hand of Midian; behold, I have sent you out.

And Gideon said to him, In me, my lord, by what shall I save Israel? Behold, my thousand is weak in Manasseh, and I am the smallest in my father’s house.

And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord will be with you, and you will strike Midian as one man.

And Gideon said to him, If then I have found favor in your eyes, and you will do for me today all that you have spoken with me,

Do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out the sacrifice and set it before you. And he said, I will sit here until you return.

And Gideon went in and made a kid of the goats and unleavened cakes of flour, and he put the meat in the basket and the broth he put in the pot, and he brought them out to him under the terebinth, and he brought near.

And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and place them upon that rock, and pour out the broth beside it; and he did thus.

And the angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes, and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes, and the angel of the Lord went away from before his eyes

And Gideon saw that this is an angel of the Lord, and Gideon said, Ah, ah, my lord, Lord, because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face

And the Lord said to him, Peace to you; do not fear, you shall not die.

And Gideon built there an altar to the Lord and called it The peace of the Lord, until this day, while he was still in Ephratha of his father Esdri.

And it happened in that night, and the Lord said to him, Take the bull calf, the young bull that belongs to your father, and a second seven-year-old bull calf, and you shall tear down the altar of Baal, which belongs to your father, and the grove that is upon it you shall destroy.

And you shall build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this Mauek in the arranged place, and you shall take the second bullock and offer up a whole burnt offering with the wood of the grove that you shall cut down.

And Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as the Lord spoke to him; and it came to pass, because he feared the house of his father and the men of the city to do it by day, that he did it by night.

And the men of the city rose early in the morning, and behold, the altar of Baal had been pulled down, and the sacred grove that was upon it had been destroyed, and they saw the second bullock which he had brought up upon the altar that had been built

And the man said to his neighbor, Who did this thing? And they sought and inquired and learned that Gideon son of Joash did this thing.

And the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, and let him die, because he tore down the altar of Baal and because he destroyed the grove that was upon it.

And Joash said to all the men who rose up against him, Do you now plead for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever pleads for him, let him be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him plead for himself, because he has thrown down his altar.

And he called it on that day Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because his altar has been pulled down.

And all Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east were gathered together to one place, and they encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

And the spirit of the Lord empowered Gideon, and he blew a horn, and Abiezer feared after him

And he sent messengers into all Manasseh and into Asher and into Zebulun and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them

And Gideon said to God, If you are saving Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

Behold, I am placing the fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if dew comes upon the fleece alone, and upon all the ground there is dryness, I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.

And it happened so. And he rose early on the next day and wrung out the fleece, and dew dripped from the fleece, a full basin of water.

And Gideon said to God, Let not your anger now be enraged against me, and I will speak yet once; and I will test once more, indeed, yet once, in the fleece, and let the dryness be on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.

And God did so in that night, and there was dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the ground there was dew.