Judges 6:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And it was so: for he got up early on the morning after, and twisting the wool in his hands, he got a basin full of water from the dew on the wool.

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  • Isa 35:7 : 7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

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  • Judg 6:39-40
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    87%

    39 Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.

    40 And that night God did so; for the wool was dry, and there was dew on all the earth round it.

  • Judg 6:33-37
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    87%

    33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

    34 But the spirit of the Lord came on Gideon; and at the sound of his horn all Abiezer came together after him.

    35 And he sent through all Manasseh, and they came after him; and he sent to Asher and Zebulun and Naphtali, and they came up and were joined to the others.

    36 Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said,

    37 See, I will put the wool of a sheep on the grain-floor; if there is dew on the wool only, while all the earth is dry, then I will be certain that it is your purpose to give Israel salvation by my hand as you have said.

  • Judg 7:1
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    1 Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.

  • Judg 6:27-29
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    27 Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night.

    28 And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there.

    29 And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing.

  • Judg 7:4-7
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    4 Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go.

    5 So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.

    6 Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water.

    7 And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

  • Judg 7:14-17
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    14 And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.

    15 Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

    16 Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

    17 And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.

  • Judg 7:24
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    24 Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.

  • Judg 8:4
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    4 Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

  • Gen 30:38
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    38 And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

  • Judg 6:25
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    25 The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

  • Judg 8:13
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    13 Then Gideon, the son of Joash, went back from the fight:

  • Judg 6:11
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    11 Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

  • Judg 6:18-20
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    18 Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.

    19 Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.

    20 And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so.

  • 2 Kgs 3:20
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    20 Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water.

  • Gen 29:3
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    3 And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
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    35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

  • Judg 7:9
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    9 The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.

  • Gen 29:7
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    7 Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

  • Judg 8:21
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    21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.

  • Judg 4:19
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    19 Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.

  • Ruth 3:14-15
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    14 And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.

    15 And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.

  • 2 Sam 17:12
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    12 Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

  • Gen 37:7
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    7 We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

  • Gen 24:20
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    20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

  • Exod 16:14
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    14 And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.

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    7 Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

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    42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

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