Gideon
~1150 BCE, the valley of Jezreel, Israel
Judge of Israel, called Jerubbaal. He was beating wheat in a winepress to hide it from Midianite raiders when the angel of the LORD called him a mighty warrior. He asked for signs twice — the fleece dry when the ground was wet, then wet when the ground was dry. He tore down his father's altar of Baal by night. With 300 men he routed an army described as thick as locusts. He refused the kingship, then made an ephod that became a snare to Israel.
On their voice
~1150 BCE. Israel has forgotten God repeatedly since Joshua. Midian has oppressed them for seven years. Gideon is not a hero who needed convincing — he is a frightened man who kept asking God to prove himself, and then discovered that his own fear was not the problem God was most concerned about.
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