Judges 6:37
confirm it by doing this: Tonight I will put a dry wool fleece on the ground where I thresh the grain. Tomorrow morning, if the fleece is wet with dew but the ground is dry, then I will know that I am the one you will enable to rescue the people of Israel as you promised.”
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
Psalms 147:19He sent his message to the descendants of Jacob; he tells to his Israeli people the laws and regulations that he had decreed.
Hosea 14:5I will be to the people of Israel like dew that refreshes the soil. When I do that, they will become as delightful as [MET] lilies are when they are blooming. No one will be able to conquer them; they will be as unmovable as [SIM] the roots of cedar trees.
Matthew 15:24But Jesus said to her, “I have been sent { God has sent me} to help only the Israelite people at this time [SYN]. They are like sheep that have gotten lost [MET] because they do not know the way to heaven.”
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 →