Judges 6:40

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That night, God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and the ground around it was covered with dew.

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  • Judg 6:36-39
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    36 Gideon said to God, 'If you are truly going to use me to save Israel as you have promised,

    37 Look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and the ground remains dry, then I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said.

    38 And that is exactly what happened. When Gideon rose early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung enough dew from it to fill a bowl with water.

    39 Then Gideon said to God, 'Please do not be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Allow me to test just once more with the fleece. Let the fleece remain dry, while dew covers the ground around it.'

  • Judg 6:24-29
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    24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it 'The Lord is Peace.' To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

    25 That same night the Lord said to him, 'Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.'

    26 Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, laying the stones in an orderly way. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering using the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.

    27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the city, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

    28 When the men of the city got up early in the morning, they saw that the altar of Baal had been torn down, the Asherah pole was cut down, and the second bull offered on the newly built altar.

    29 They asked one another, 'Who did this?' When they investigated and inquired, they were told, 'Gideon son of Joash did it.'

  • 9 That night the LORD said to him, "Get up and go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands.

  • 1 Early in the morning, Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people with him set up camp beside the spring of Harod. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was to the north of them, by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

  • Judg 7:14-15
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    14 His companion responded, "This can only mean the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian and the entire camp into his hands."

    15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He returned to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands."

  • 9 When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

  • Judg 6:11-12
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    11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

    12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, 'The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'

  • 20 The angel of God said to him, 'Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.' And Gideon did so.

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    13 That evening, quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning, there was a layer of dew around the camp.

    14 When the dew evaporated, there was a fine, flaky substance on the surface of the wilderness, as fine as frost on the ground.

  • 9 Then God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so.

  • 40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6 Then God said, 'Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.'

    7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

  • 4 Then Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet pursuing, came to the Jordan and crossed it.

  • Judg 7:4-5
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    4 Then the LORD said to Gideon, "There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and there I will test them for you. Whoever I say, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go; and whoever I say, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go."

    5 So Gideon brought the people down to the water. There the LORD said to him, "Separate those who lap the water with their tongues, as a dog laps, from those who kneel down to drink."

  • 22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, 'Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!'

  • 14 By the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was completely dry.

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    20 It came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. There was a cloud and darkness, yet it lit up the night, and neither side approached the other all night long.

    21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind all night and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided.

  • 28 Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During the days of Gideon, the land had peace for forty years.

  • Judg 6:33-34
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    33 Now all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east joined forces, crossed the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

    34 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

  • 13 Gideon, son of Joash, returned from the battle by the Ascent of Heres.

  • Judg 6:16-18
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    16 The Lord said to him, 'I will be with you, and you will strike down Midian as if it were one man.'

    17 Gideon replied, 'If I have found favor in your sight, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me.'

    18 Please do not leave here until I return to you and bring my offering and set it before you.' And the Lord said, 'I will stay until you return.'

  • 32 Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

  • 39 He spread a cloud as a covering and fire to give light at night.

  • 12 'We will come upon him wherever he is found, and we will fall on him like dew settling on the ground. Not even one of his men will survive.'

  • 14 By day He led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

  • 7 The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped, I will save you and hand Midian over to you. Let all the others go home."

  • 14 The Lord turned to him and said, 'Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?'

  • 12 And the rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

  • 2 God spoke to Israel in visions during the night, calling, 'Jacob, Jacob!' And he replied, 'Here I am.'

  • 17 He said to them, "Watch me and do as I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.

  • 20 That night God came to Balaam and said, 'Since these men have come to summon you, go with them. But do only what I tell you.'

  • 38 For the cloud of the Lord was over the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during all their journeys.

  • 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.