Judges 6

¹And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Neh 9:26-29Judg 2:19-20Deut 28:15-68Judg 2:11Judg 2:13-14Num 25:15-18Num 31:1-3Lev 26:14-46Ps 106:34-42Gen 25:2

²And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 13:6Heb 11:381 Sam 14:11Lev 26:17Deut 28:47-48Rev 6:15

³And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 3:13Judg 6:33Judg 7:121 Kgs 4:30Gen 29:1Isa 65:21-22Job 1:3Judg 8:10Deut 28:30-33Deut 28:51

⁴And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 26:16Deut 28:51Mic 6:15Deut 28:33Jer 49:9-10Deut 28:30-31Gen 10:19Gen 13:10Prov 28:3Obad 1:5

⁵For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 7:12Judg 8:10Isa 60:6Isa 13:20Jer 46:23Jer 49:29Jer 49:321 Sam 30:17Judg 8:21Ps 83:4-12

⁶And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 3:9Jer 5:17Ps 106:43-44Ps 50:15Judg 3:15Hos 5:15Isa 26:16Mal 1:4Ps 78:34

⁷And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁸That the Lord sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 20:5-32Ps 136:10-16Isa 63:9-14Judg 2:1-3Neh 9:9-12

⁹And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 44:2-3

¹⁰And I said unto you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 10:22 Kgs 17:35-39Jer 9:13Exod 20:2-3Jer 3:13Jer 3:25Jer 42:21Jer 43:4Jer 43:7Judg 2:2

¹¹And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 17:2Heb 11:32Judg 13:3Judg 8:2Gen 16:7Isa 63:9Gen 48:16Judg 13:18-20Judg 2:1-5Judg 6:14-16

¹²And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:5Luke 1:28Judg 2:18Josh 1:9Judg 13:3Exod 3:12Luke 1:11Acts 18:9-10Matt 1:23Matt 28:20

¹³And 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, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 77:7-92 Chr 15:2Isa 59:1-2Ps 44:1Deut 30:17-18Deut 31:17Gen 25:22Isa 41:17Isa 63:15Ps 78:3-4

¹⁴And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:5-9Heb 11:341 Sam 12:11Judg 4:61 Chr 14:9-10Heb 11:32

¹⁵And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 3:111 Sam 9:21Exod 4:10Jer 1:6Eph 3:81 Cor 15:91 Sam 18:23Jer 50:45Luke 1:34Mic 5:2

¹⁶And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:5Acts 11:21Exod 3:12Mark 16:20Isa 41:10Isa 41:14-16Matt 28:20Judg 6:12

¹⁷And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 86:17Exod 33:13Isa 7:11Exod 33:16Gen 15:8-17Isa 38:7-8Judg 6:36-40Exod 4:1-92 Kgs 20:8-11

¹⁸Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 18:5Gen 18:3Judg 13:15Gen 19:3

¹⁹And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 18:6-8Lev 2:4Judg 13:15-19

²⁰And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 18:33-34Judg 13:19

²¹Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 9:241 Kgs 18:382 Chr 7:11 Chr 21:26Judg 13:20

²²And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:30Exod 33:20Deut 5:26John 1:18Deut 5:24Deut 5:5Gen 16:13Isa 6:5-8John 12:41Judg 13:21-23

²³And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Dan 10:19Gen 43:23John 14:27John 20:26Gen 32:30John 20:19Ps 85:8Rom 1:7

²⁴Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah–shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 22:14Exod 17:15Ezek 48:35Judg 8:32Jer 33:16Gen 33:20Jer 23:6Josh 22:10Josh 22:26-28Judg 21:4

²⁵And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 34:132 Cor 6:15-17Judg 3:7Acts 5:29Matt 10:371 Kgs 18:21Matt 6:24Acts 4:19Deut 7:5Gen 35:2

²⁶And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 14:331 Cor 14:402 Sam 24:18

²⁷Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 2:4John 2:5Deut 4:1Gal 1:16John 15:14John 3:2Matt 16:24Ps 112:5

²⁸And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁹And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³⁰Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 26:9John 16:2Phil 3:6Jer 26:11Jer 50:38

³¹And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 8:4Eph 5:11Jer 10:11Jer 10:51 Kgs 18:271 Kgs 18:291 Kgs 18:40Deut 13:5-18Deut 17:2-7Exod 23:2

³²Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 12:112 Sam 11:21Judg 7:1Hos 9:10Jer 11:13

³³Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 17:16Judg 6:3Isa 8:9-10Ps 27:2-3Rom 8:35-391 Chr 5:191 Kgs 18:451 Kgs 21:1Job 1:3Josh 19:18

³⁴But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi–ezer was gathered after him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 24:201 Chr 12:18Judg 3:10Judg 3:27Rom 13:14Ps 51:111 Cor 12:8-111 Sam 11:61 Sam 16:14Gal 3:27

³⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 30:6-12Judg 4:6

³⁶And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 6:14Matt 16:12 Kgs 20:9Ps 103:13-14Exod 4:1-9Judg 6:17-20

³⁷Behold, 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 14:5Matt 15:24Matt 10:5-6Ps 72:6Deut 32:2Hos 6:3-4Ps 147:19-20

³⁸And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 35:7

³⁹And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 18:32Isa 50:2Ps 107:33-35Matt 21:43Acts 13:46Isa 35:6-7Isa 43:19-20Matt 8:12Rom 11:12-22

⁴⁰And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI