“Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”
Judges 6:23 (WEB)
Context Reading
21Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight. 22Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!” 23Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.” 24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.”To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.