Judges 6:37
behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor. If there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then I shall know that thou will save Israel by my hand as thou have spoken.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
36And Gideon said to God, If thou will save Israel by my hand, as thou have spoken,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
Psalms 147:19He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
Hosea 14:5I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Matthew 15:24But having answered, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Judges 6:34-40
Gideon's Fleece. ( b. c. 1249.) 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. 34 But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him. 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. 36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt… Read the whole commentary →