In this video listen to Judges 6 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Judges 6 the Midianites oppress Israel in a terrible widespread oppression which seems more significant than the previous oppressors in the book of Judges. The Lord appears to Gideon, calling him a “man of valour” and telling him to go in the strength of his hand. Normally going in your own ability doesn’t work, but when the Lord sends you, he is fighting for you as in the book of Joshua, and your own might is able to do it.

Gideon asks for an initial sign, after which he obeys the Lord and cuts down an altar to Baal and an Asherah pole. This earns the fury of people in his nearby town, but then also a nickname, Jerubbaal. In 2019 pottery was discovered in the Shahariya forest in Israel with the name Jerubbaal written on it - the first time this  ...