Israel’s Disobedience

Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.

When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

The Call of Gideon

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 wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.”

The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And he did so.

Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

Then Gideon perceived that it was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, “Help me, Lord God! For I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.”

And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Although you are barren, having borne no children, you shall conceive and bear a son.

Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like that of an angel of God, most awe-inspiring; I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name;

God listened to Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.

The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Let the woman give heed to all that I said to her.

Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Allow us to detain you, and prepare a kid for you.”

The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat your food; but if you want to prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)

Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?”

But the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.”

When the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the angel of the Lord.