Gideon · Issue #1 of 4
Least Of All
Judges 6:11–16, Judges 6:36–40 · World English Bible
Judges 6:11
The LORD’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
Judges 6:12
The LORD’s angel appeared to him, and said to him,
The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!
Judges 6:13
Gideon said to him,
Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
Judges 6:14
The LORD looked at him, and said,
Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?
Judges 6:15
He said to him,
O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.
Judges 6:16
The LORD said to him,
Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.
Judges 6:36
Gideon said to God,
If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
Judges 6:37
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.”
Judges 6:38
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.
Judges 6:39
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.
Judges 6:40
God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
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