“And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.”
Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. — The introduction of Gideon presents a figure in desperate circumstances: threshing wheat in a winepress (an inappropriate location chosen for concealment) to hide grain from raiding Midianites. The appearance of 'the angel of the LORD' initiates the divine call narrative that establishes Gideon as a judge.
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