Judges 6:24
Context6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” 1 To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges 8:32
Context8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a very 2 old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges 6:11
Context6:11 The Lord’s angelic messenger 3 came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon 4 was threshing 5 wheat in a winepress 6 so he could hide it from the Midianites. 7


[6:24] 1 tn Heb “The
[6:11] 3 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive.
[6:11] 4 tn Heb “Now Gideon his son…” The Hebrew circumstantial clause (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + predicate) breaks the narrative sequence and indicates that the angel’s arrival coincided with Gideon’s threshing.
[6:11] 5 tn Heb “beating out.”
[6:11] 6 sn Threshing wheat in a winepress. One would normally thresh wheat at the threshing floor outside the city. Animals and a threshing sledge would be employed. Because of the Midianite threat, Gideon was forced to thresh with a stick in a winepress inside the city. For further discussion see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 63.