Israel’s Disobedience

1 Now the ^aangel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, ^b“I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the ^cland that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ^d‘I will never break my covenant with you,

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23  “Curse Meroz, says the ^zangel of the Lord,

curse its inhabitants thoroughly,

because they did not come to the help of the Lord,

to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

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The Call of Gideon

11 Now the ^pangel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.