³ And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

¹¹ Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.