Gideon (Judge living before Israel's Monarchy)

Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from raiding Midianites when an angel found him and called him a mighty man of valor, a title Gideon immediately questioned given that his clan was the weakest in Manasseh and he was the least in his father's house. He asked God to prove the call was real with the sign of a fleece left out overnight, wet with dew while the ground stayed dry and then dry while the ground stayed wet, and God still whittled his army down from thirty-two thousand men to three hundred before letting him attack the Midianite camp with torches, trumpets, and empty jars in the middle of the night.