Judges 6:37
I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I, shall know that by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
36And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,
38And it was so. And rising before day wringing the fleece, he filled a vessel with the dew.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
Hosea 14:5I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.
Matthew 15:24And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost 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 →