Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
"Alas, O Lord Jehovah, forasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face"  (Judges 6:22).  "Gideon feared that the theophany, was an omen of his impending death."[13]  However, the Lord reassured him at once,