The angel of the Lord came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites.
The men of Ephraim said to him, ‘Why have you done this to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites? ’ And they argued with him violently.
God handed over to you Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian. What was I able to do compared to you? ’ When he said this, their anger against him subsided.