Judges 6:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

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  • Exod 3:11 : 11 And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
  • 1 Sam 9:21 : 21 And Saul answered and said, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then do you speak so to me?
  • 1 Sam 18:23 : 23 And Saul's servants spoke those words in David's ears. And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
  • Jer 1:6 : 6 Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
  • Jer 50:45 : 45 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them out: surely he shall make their dwelling desolate with them.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one who is to be ruler in Israel; whose origins have been from of old, from everlasting.
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I do not know a man?
  • 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 And Moses said to the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before, nor since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.
  • Exod 18:21-25 : 21 Moreover, you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 22 And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you. 23 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will go to their place in peace. 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he said. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two groups.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 6:16-17
    2 verses
    82%

    16And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.

    17And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me.

  • Judg 6:12-14
    3 verses
    82%

    12And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor.

    13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

    14And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?

  • 21And Saul answered and said, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then do you speak so to me?

  • 2And the LORD said to Gideon, The people with you are too many for me to hand the Midianites over to you, lest Israel boast against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.

  • Judg 6:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36And Gideon said unto God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,

    37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.

  • Jer 1:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

    7But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

  • Judg 7:9-11
    3 verses
    70%

    9And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the army, for I have delivered it into your hand.

    10But if you fear to go down, go with Phurah your servant down to the army.

    11And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down to the army. Then he went down with Phurah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.

  • 17(For my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian,

  • 14And his friend answered and said, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; for God has delivered Midian and all the army into his hand.

  • 11And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

  • 5And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

  • 10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two groups.

  • Judg 8:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

    3God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison to you? Then their anger was pacified toward him when he said that.

  • 13And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

  • 13And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray, by the hand of him whom you will send.

  • 27And he said, If the LORD does not help you, how shall I help you? from the threshing floor, or from the winepress?

  • Judg 6:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

    7And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,

  • 15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

  • 34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.

  • 20And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

  • 18He said to him, "We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah toward the side of Mount Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but now I am going to the house of the LORD, and there is no one who receives me into their house.

  • 22And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

  • 30"For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. Now, when shall I provide for my own house also?"

  • 19And he said, They were my brothers, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.

  • Gen 31:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5And said to them, I see your father's expression, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

    6And you know that with all my strength I have served your father.

  • 7And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand; let all the other people go every man to his place.

  • 5Then I said, O Lord GOD, cease, I beg you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

  • 16Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people from the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.

  • 8And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

  • 8And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

  • 16And the man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. And he said, What happened, my son?

  • 27And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren."

  • 31And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • 9And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

  • 4And the LORD said to Gideon, The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be that of whom I say to you, This one shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, This one shall not go with you, the same shall not go.

  • 22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

  • 6Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us, for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few."

  • 17And he said to them, Look at me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, as I do, so shall you do.

  • 12How can I alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your complaints?

  • 2And the LORD said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.