The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 6:34
New International Version (NIV)

Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 6:35 (NASB)
[SUP]35 [/SUP] He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, and they also were called together to follow him; and he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 6:36
King James version(KJV)

36.)And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,nd Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 6:36 (NASB)
[SUP]36 [/SUP] Then Gideon said to God, "If You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 6:37 (KJV)
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.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 6:38 (NASB)
[SUP]38 [/SUP] And it was so. When he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 6:39
New International Version (NIV)

Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.”

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 6:40
King James version(KJV)

40.)And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 7:1 (NASB)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 7:2 (KJV)
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

 

[mario1001]

Judges 7:3
Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 7:4 (NASB)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] Then the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go."

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 7:5
King James version(KJV)

5.)So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 7:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 7:7 (KJV)
And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 7:8
King James version(KJV)

8.)So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 7:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] Now the same night it came about that the LORD said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands.

 

[mar09]

Jdg 7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 7:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened that you may go down against the camp." So he went with Purah his servant down to the outposts of the army that was in the camp.

 

[laura_charlotte]

Judges 7:12 New Century Version (NCV)

12 The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the peoples from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many of them they seemed like locusts. Their camels could not be counted because they were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore!