Judges 6:29

They said. — We are not told that Gideon’s servants betrayed his secret, but suspicion would naturally fall on so brave and prominent a worshipper of Jehovah as Gideon was; and it is rarely that actions which require so much effort and so many coadjutors can be kept secret. Gideon had proved himself to be what his name signifies — “a hewer.” A man so brave and so patriotic must have stood almost alone among a cringing and apostate people.