Gabriel is not the first messenger of the LORD to greet someone with the phrase āThe LORD is with youā (Lk 1:28). An anonymous angel hails Gideon, a young man from a poor and insignificant family, as the lad desperately hides his familyās wheat harvest from the marauding Midianites: āThe LORD is with you, you mighty warrior!ā (Jgs 6:12). Gideon then receives his commission to save Israel from the hand of its enemy and to be a judge over the 12 tribes.