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Judges 6:37 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.” "
Judges 6:37
Verse in Context
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35 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
39 Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”
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Judges 6:1
"The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years."
Judges 6:2
"The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds."
Judges 6:3
"So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them."
Judges 6:4
"They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey."
Judges 6:5
"For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it."
Judges 6:6
"Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD."
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