Gideon and his three hundred
Jue 6, 1 – Jue 7, 22
Gideon saw himself as the least in his family, but the Lord called him to free Israel from the Midianites. After asking for a sign with a fleece of wool, he went out with only three hundred men, trumpets, and torches, and the enemy camp fled. Jue 6, 1 – Jue 7, 22
The story, in plain words
The Midianites swept down on the fields of Israel like a swarm of locusts. Israel was brought very low and cried out to the Lord. Judges 6:5-7
One day, the angel of the Lord sat down under an oak tree at Ophrah. There Gideon, son of Joash, was beating out wheat in hiding from the Midianites. Judges 6:11
The angel appeared to him and told him that the Lord was with him. He called him a mighty warrior. Judges 6:12
Then the Lord told him to go with that strength of his and free Israel, because he himself was sending him. Judges 6:14 Gideon answered that his clan was the…
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See the mapWhat the Bible says
Jue 6, 1 – Jue 7, 22
And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
To talk about together
- Gideon saw himself as the least, and God chose him. Why do you think God chooses the little ones?
- God wanted them to be few, so that no one would say they won by their own strength. When have you realized that something good was not only your own doing?
- For the child: if you knew that God is with you, what would you dare to do?