Judges 6:17

And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

In Context

16And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.

18And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:1Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.

Exodus 33:13If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, show me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people this nation.

Judges 6:36And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

Psalms 86:17Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

Isaiah 38:7And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:

Matthew Henry on Judges 6:12-25

The Call of Gideon. ( b. c. 1249.) 11 And there came an angel of the Lord , and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of,… Read the whole commentary →

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