5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents in a great multitude like locusts, for there was no number in them nor in their camels, and they would enter into the land destroying it.
6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the sons of Israel cried unto the Lord.
7 And when the sons of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,
8 the Lord sent a prophet unto the sons of Israel who said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of slavery;
9 I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all that oppressed you and drove them out from before you and gave you their land;
10 and I said unto you, I am the Lord your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell, but ye have not heard my voice.
11 And the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash, the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.