Shoebox Collection Week is Here! Plus Toggle navigation. Password Assistance. Email address. The Bible Story of Gideon. Bible Articles Videos Audio. Read the full story of Gideon in scripture text below and find Articles, Videos and Audio Sermons relating to this inspiring story. Share Tweet Save. Judges 6. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
Am I not sending you? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared. I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.
But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime. Are you trying to save him?
Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
Let me make just one more request. Known as the greatest judge of Israel , readers might be surprised when they dive into the narrative to find a timid ruler. This article will dive into the person of Gideon, what God does to make him an even more unlikely candidate to save Israel, and why it matters for us today. When it comes to Gideon, readers actually have quite a bit to unpack in Judges - Judges I highly suggest reading the entirety of the two chapters to get a full picture of Gideon and all God accomplished through him.
So he tests God. This, right off the bat, seems to contradict the command not to put the Lord to the test Deuteronomy But Gideon appears to test God a lot.
Nevertheless, God will pull out all crutches from underneath him and force Gideon to rely on Him in the next part of the story. When God wanted Gideon to bring an army to take on the enormous Midianite army, he brings 32, men Judges 7. God has other plans. He decides to enlist a series of tests of His own on Gideon, reminiscent of the tests Gideon had for Him in the previous chapter.
Later that night, God spoke to Gideon and told him to remove the altar of Baal that the townspeople had maintained at his homestead. Fearing the reaction of the Ophrahites, Gideon went his servants in the night and tore down altar to Baal and the Asherah pole. In the morning, the townspeople discovered that the pagan idols had been destroyed. After discovering Gideon was the culprit, the townspeople demanded that Joash have his son brought forth for execution.
Joash defended his son, by saying that if Baal were truly powerful he would be able to defend his own altar. This earned Gideon the name, Jerubbaal- for they wished Baal to contend against him. The Holy Spirit dressed onto Gideon, marking the impending mobilization of the army against the Midian-Amalek coalition. Gideon sounded a trumpet and summoned his own clan, the Abiezrites to battle. Gideon also had messengers dispatched to the rest of Manasseh and to the northern tribes of Asher , Zebulun and Naphtali.
Gideon did not request the Ephraimites , the other Tribe of Joseph to send forces. Wishing to have reassurance of God's promised victory, Gideon asked him for the sign of wet fleece, but no dew on the ground. God performed this sign for Gideon, yet Gideon asked for another sign- the complete opposite of the previous one. Gideon took his army and encamped near the Spring of Harod. Here, Yahweh spoke to Gideon and told him that his assembled forces were took great; they needed to be narrowed to a more humble size, so they would not claim the victory from their own hands.
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