People
Gideon in Judges 6
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This person shows up in Judges 6:11: “Yahweh’s angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real person in a real place.
Judges 6:11
“Yahweh’s angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.”
What kids can learn
When you hear gideon in Judges, remember the sentence around it. God put this person in the story on purpose.
Read Judges 6:11 again tomorrow and ask what the person is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Judges 6:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
angelcame,andsatundertheoakwhichwasinOphrah,thatbelongedtoJoashtheAbiezrite.Hissonwasoutwheatinthewinepress,tohideitfromtheMidianites.