The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
"Ophrah ...  Abiezrite ...  Joash ...  Gideon"  (Judges 6:11).  "The name `Gideon' means `feller,' or `hewer.' He was the youngest son of Joash of the clan of Abiezer in the tribe of Manasseh.  Their home was in Ophrah."[7]  Ophrah has been supposedly connected with half a dozen different locations, but J. P. U. Lilley of Oxford stated that, "The most likely location was that eight miles from Beth-shan toward Mount Tabor."[8] A prominent shrine of the Canaanite god Baal was located at Ophrah, and Joash, Gideon's father, was apparently the leader of a group in that area who had syncretized the worship of Jehovah with that of Baal.  This was also the place where Gideon built that altar to Jehovah-shalom (Jehovah-Peace), after destroying the shrine of Baal.