22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was ^awith the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was ^bmoved to pity by their ^cgroaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is ^qwith you, O ^rmighty man of valor.”

13 And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his ^swonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

16 And the Lord said to him, ^u“But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”