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Ophrah

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Named at Judges 6:11, where the LORD’s angel comes and sits “under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite.” At 6:24 Gideon builds an altar there to the LORD and calls it “The LORD is Peace”; to this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. At 8:27 Gideon makes an ephod and puts it in Ophrah, his city, and all Israel plays the prostitute with it there; at 8:32 Gideon the son of Joash dies in a good old age, and is buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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1SA 13:16–18, engwebp
¹⁶Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
¹⁷The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
¹⁸another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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JDG 6:11–24, engwebp
¹¹The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
¹²The LORD’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
¹³Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
¹⁴The LORD looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”
¹⁵He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
¹⁶The LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
¹⁷He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
¹⁸Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
¹⁹Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
²⁰The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” He did so.
²¹Then the LORD’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 the LORD’s angel departed out of his sight.
²²Gideon saw that he was the LORD’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”
²³The LORD said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”
²⁴Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it “The LORD is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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JDG 8:24–27, engwebp
²⁴Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
²⁵They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
²⁶The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
²⁷Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
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JDG 8:29–32, engwebp
²⁹Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
³⁰Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
³¹His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
³²Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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JDG 9:1–6, engwebp
¹Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
²“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
³His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”
⁴They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.
⁵He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
⁶All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
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Unresolved interpretation: Ophrah of Judges 6 and Ophrah of 1 Samuel 13:17

Judges 6:11 says, “The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite,” and 6:24 that the altar Gideon built there to the LORD is still, to this day, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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- JDG 6:11–24, engwebp
  ¹¹The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
  ¹²The LORD’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
  ¹³Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
  ¹⁴The LORD looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”
  ¹⁵He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
  ¹⁶The LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
  ¹⁷He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
  ¹⁸Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
  ¹⁹Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
  ²⁰The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” He did so.
  ²¹Then the LORD’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 the LORD’s angel departed out of his sight.
  ²²Gideon saw that he was the LORD’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”
  ²³The LORD said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”
  ²⁴Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it “The LORD is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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1 Samuel 13:17 says, “The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual”; 13:16 says the Philistines encamped in Michmash. The Korean Revised Version says that company came by the way of Ophrah to the land of Shual.
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- 1SA 13:16–18, engwebp
  ¹⁶Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
  ¹⁷The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
  ¹⁸another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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Judges 6:11–24 tells of “the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite,” and of Ophrah of the Abiezrites (6:24), and 1 Samuel 13:17 names the way to Ophrah that a company of the raiders from the camp of the Philistines turned to. 1 Samuel 13:17 does not tie this Ophrah to Joash or to the Abiezrites, and the text does not say whether the two are the same place. This collection records both passages under one entry (place-ophrah) and does not decide whether they are the same place.

Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Ophrah 2” by name and 5 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Afula (confidence 506 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Afula
OpenBible.info confidence 506 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.6057, 35.29
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ophrah 2” (CC BY 4.0)
Khirbet Taiyibeh
OpenBible.info confidence 158 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.51718, 35.17854
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ophrah 2” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (4) — The LORD’s angel comes to Ophrah and appears to Gideon, Gideon makes an ephod of the golden earrings and puts it in Ophrah, Gideon dies in a good old age and is buried in the tomb of Joash his father, Abimelech kills his brothers, seventy persons, on one stone, and the men of Shechem make him king

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Judges 6:11 Open that verse

The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:24 Open that verse

Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it “The LORD is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8:27 Open that verse

Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

Judges 8:32 Open that verse

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 9:5 Open that verse

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

1 Samuel 13:17 Open that verse

The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;

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Entry: Ophrah (place-ophrah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/ophrah
Current wording: Named at Judges 6:11, where the LORD’s angel comes and sits “under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite.” At 6:24 Gideon builds an altar there to the LORD and calls it “The LORD is Peace”; to this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. At 8:27 Gideon makes an ephod and puts it in Ophrah, his city, and all Israel plays the prostitute with it there; at 8:32 Gideon the son of Joash dies in a good old age, and is buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Cited evidence: 1SA 13:16–18, engwebp / JDG 6:11–24, engwebp / JDG 8:24–27, engwebp / JDG 8:29–32, engwebp / JDG 9:1–6, engwebp
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