Judges 6:37

then look—I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If the fleece is wet with dew but the ground is dry, then I will know that you are going to save Israel through me as you promised.”

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In The King James Version

Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

In Context

36Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel through me as you promised,

38That's what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he pressed on the fleece and squeezed out the dew, enough water to fill a bowl.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:2May my teaching fall gently like the rain; may my words drop lightly like the dew, like soft rain on new grass, like spring showers on growing plants.

Psalms 147:19He proclaims his word to Jacob; his rules and laws to Israel.

Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel, they will blossom like lilies, they will send down roots like the cedars of Lebanon.

Matthew 15:24“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” Jesus said to the woman.

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 →

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