Jewell Gilpin

I would think it the first place they didn't really listen to what the God was saying, when he told them not to worship the gods of the the Amorites, and when they did he gave them into the hands of the Midianites for seven years. In our unbelief sometimes we are a disobedient people, therefore, we are brought under the hand of God's chastisement.

During the time that Gideon lived during the time of Judges, and there really wasn't any law, but they seemed to rule themsleves within a tribe. When Gideon saw the angel, and heard what he had to say, he asked a question of him saying: If God is with us, why has all these things happened to us. Why has the Lord abandoned us, and put us into the hands of the Midianits?