Gideon threshes wheat in the wine press while hiding from the Midianites, and an angel of the Lord appears to him to announce that he is the Lords mighty man of valour.
11 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.