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.
"’Sins, not afflictions, argue God’s absence.’" [Note: Bishop Hall, quoted by Bush, p. 85. Cf. Joshua 7:10-13.] 