Judges 6:15

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Gideon said to him,“But Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.”

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  • Exod 3:11 : 11 Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
  • 1 Sam 9:21 : 21 Saul replied,“Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the clans in the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”
  • 1 Sam 18:23 : 23 So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately to David. David replied,“Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”
  • Jer 1:6 : 6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
  • Jer 50:45 : 45 So listen to what I, the LORD, have planned against Babylon, what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 A King Will Come and a Remnant Will Prosper(5:1) As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah– from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the distant past.
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 Mary said to the angel,“How will this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”
  • 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 Then Moses said to the LORD,“O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
  • Exod 18:21-25 : 21 But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 22 They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and 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 these people will be able to go home satisfied.” 24 Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said. 25 Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he 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 all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 6:16-17
    2 verses
    82%

    16The LORD said to him,“Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

    17Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

  • Judg 6:12-14
    3 verses
    82%

    12The LORD’s angel appeared and said to him,“The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”

    13Gideon said to him,“Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,‘Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

    14Then the LORD himself turned to him and said,“You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?”

  • 1 Sam 9:21
    73%

    21Saul replied,“Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the clans in the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”

  • Judg 7:2
    73%

    2The LORD said to Gideon,“You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. Israel might brag,‘Our own strength has delivered us.’

  • Judg 6:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Gideon said to God,“If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.

    37Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it is dry, then I will be sure that you will use me to deliver Israel, as you promised.”

  • Jer 1:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

    7The LORD said to me,“Do not say,‘I am too young.’ But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.

  • Judg 7:9-11
    3 verses
    70%

    9Gideon Reassured of Victory That night the LORD said to Gideon,“Get up! Attack the camp, for I am handing it over to you.

    10But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with Purah your servant

    11and listen to what they are saying. Then you will be brave and attack the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to where the sentries were guarding the camp.

  • Judg 9:17
    70%

    17my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian’s power.

  • Judg 7:14
    70%

    14The other man said,“Without a doubt this symbolizes the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”

  • Exod 3:11
    69%

    11Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

  • Deut 26:5
    69%

    5Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

  • Gen 32:10
    69%

    10I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

  • Judg 8:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2He said to them,“Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest!

    3It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” When he said this, they calmed down.

  • Gen 37:13
    68%

    13Israel said to Joseph,“Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.”“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

  • Exod 4:13
    68%

    13But Moses said,“O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”

  • 2 Kgs 6:27
    68%

    27He replied,“No, let the LORD help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.”

  • Judg 6:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.

    7When the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help because of Midian,

  • Amos 7:15
    68%

    15Then the LORD took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission,‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’

  • Gen 44:34
    68%

    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

  • Gen 44:20
    68%

    20We said to my lord,‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

  • Judg 19:18
    68%

    18The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.

  • Judg 6:22
    67%

    22When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”

  • Gen 30:30
    67%

    30Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

  • Judg 8:19
    67%

    19He said,“They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, as surely as the LORD is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

  • Gen 31:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

    6You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,

  • Judg 7:7
    67%

    7The LORD said to Gideon,“With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army and I will hand Midian over to you. The rest of the men should go home.”

  • Amos 7:5
    67%

    5I said,“Sovereign LORD, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!”

  • 1 Sam 9:16
    67%

    16“At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”

  • 2 Sam 1:8
    67%

    8He asked me,‘Who are you?’ I told him,‘I’m an Amalekite.’

  • Gen 15:8
    67%

    8But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

  • 1 Sam 4:16
    67%

    16The man said to Eli,“I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli asked,“How did things go, my son?”

  • Gen 24:27
    67%

    27saying“Praised be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master’s relatives!”

  • Gen 46:31
    67%

    31Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    66%

    9Obadiah said,“What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?

  • Judg 7:4
    66%

    4The LORD spoke to Gideon again,“There are still too many men. Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. When I say,‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; when I say,‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.”

  • Gen 44:22
    66%

    22We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

  • 1 Sam 14:6
    66%

    6Jonathan said to his armor bearer,“Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will intervene for us. Nothing can prevent the LORD from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”

  • Judg 7:17
    66%

    17He said to them,“Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

  • Deut 1:12
    66%

    12But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

  • Judg 1:2
    66%

    2The LORD said,“The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them.”