Judges 6:11 meaning and explanation

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:11, Berean Standard Bible

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The scene is set during Israel's seven years under Midianite raids, when crops and livestock were plundered and people hid in caves. Gideon, son of Joash the Abiezrite, is threshing wheat inside a winepress rather than on an open threshing floor, hiding the grain from raiders.

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