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Chapter 6 And the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the LORD.

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And the LORD delivered them into the hand
of Midian seven years.

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And the hand of Midian prevailed against
Israel.

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And because of the Midianites,
the children of Israel made them the dens

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which are in the mountains, and caves,
and strongholds.

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And so it was when Israel had sown,
that the Midianites came up, and the

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Amalekites, and the children of the east,
even they came up against them.

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And they encamped against them,
and destroyed the increase of the earth,

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till thou come unto Gaza, and left no
sustenance for Israel, neither sheep,

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nor ox, nor ass.

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For they came up with their cattle in
their tents, and they came as grasshoppers

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for multitude.

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For both they and their camels were
without number.

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And they entered into the land to destroy
it.

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And Israel was greatly impoverished
because of the Midianites.

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And the children of Israel cried unto the
LORD.

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And it came to pass, when the children of
Israel cried unto the LORD because of the

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Midianites, that the LORD sent a prophet
unto the children of Israel, which said

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unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I brought you up from Egypt,

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and brought you forth out of the house of
bondage.

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And I delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that

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oppressed you, and drave them out from
before you, and gave you their land.

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And I said unto you, I am the LORD your
God.

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Fear not the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell.

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But ye have not obeyed my voice.

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And there came an angel of the LORD,
and sat under an oak, which was an ophra,

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that pertained unto Joash the Abiah's
rite, and his son Gideon, threshed wheat

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by the winepress, to hide it from the
Midianites.

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And the angel of the LORD appeared unto
him, and said unto him, The LORD is with

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thee, thou mighty man of valor.

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And Gideon said unto him, O my LORD,
if the LORD be with us, why then is all

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this befallen us?

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And where be all his miracles,
which our fathers told us of?

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Saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from
Egypt?

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But now the LORD hath forsaken us,
and delivered us into the hands of the

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Midianites.

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And the LORD looked upon him, and said,
Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save

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Israel from the hand of the Midianites.

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Have not I sent thee?

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And he said unto him, O my LORD,
wherewith shall I save Israel?

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Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh,
and I am the least in my father's house.

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And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will
be with thee, and thou shalt smite the

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Midianites as one man.

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And he said unto him, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, then show me a sign

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that thou talkest with me.

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Depart not hence, I pray thee,
until I come unto thee, and bring forth my

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present, and set it before thee.

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And he said, I will tarry until thou come
again.

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And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid,
and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour,

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the flesh he put in a basket, and he put
the broth in a pot, and brought it out

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unto him under the oak, and presented it.

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And the angel of God said unto him,
Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes,

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and lay them upon this rock, and pour out
the broth.

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And he did so.

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Then the angel of the LORD put forth the
end of the staff that was in his hand,

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and touched the flesh and the unleavened
cakes, and there rose up fire out of the

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rock, and consumed the flesh and the
unleavened cakes.

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Then the angel of the LORD departed out of
his sight.

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And when Gideon perceived that he was an
angel of the LORD, Gideon said,

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Alas, O LORD God!

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For because I have seen an angel of the
LORD face to face.

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And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto
thee.

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Fear not, thou shalt not die.

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Then Gideon built an altar there unto the
LORD, and called it Jehovah Shalom.

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Unto this day it is yet an offer of the
Abiezrites.

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And it came to pass the same night that
the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's

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young bullock, even the second bullock of
seven years old, and throw down the altar

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of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down
the grove that is by it, and build an

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altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top
of this rock in the ordered place,

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and take the second bullock, and offer a
burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove

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which thou shalt cut down.

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Then Gideon took ten men of his servants,
and did as the LORD had said unto him.

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And so it was, because he feared his
father's household and the men of the

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city, that he could not do it by day,
that he did it by night.

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And when the men of the city arose early
in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal

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was cast down, and the grove was cut down
that was by it, and the second bullock was

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offered upon the altar that was built.

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And they said one to another, Who hath
done this thing?

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And when they inquired and asked,
they said, Gideon, the son of Joash hath

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done this thing.

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Then the men of the city said unto Joash,
Bring up thy son that he may die,

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because he hath cast down the altar of
Baal, and because he hath cut down the

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grove that was by it.

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And Joash said unto all that stood against
him, Will ye plead for Baal?

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Will ye save him?

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He that will plead for him, let him be put
to death whilst it is yet morning.

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If he be a god, let him plead for himself,
because one hath cast down his altar.

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Therefore on that day he called him
Jeroboam, saying, Let Baal plead against

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him, because he hath thrown down his
altar.

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Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites
and the children of the east were gathered

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together, and went over and pitched in the
valley of Jezreel.

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But the Spirit of the Lord came upon
Gideon, and he blew a trumpet,

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and Abazer was gathered after him.

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And he sent messengers throughout all
Manasseh, who also was gathered after him.

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And he sent messengers unto Asher,
and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali,

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and they came up to meet them.

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

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said, Behold, I will put a fleece of wool
in the floor, and if the dew be on the

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fleece only, and it be dry upon all the
earth beside, then shall I know that thou

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wilt save Israel by mine hand,
as thou hast said.

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And it was so.

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For he rose up early on the morrow,
and thrust the fleece together,

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and wringed the dew out of the fleece,
a bowl full of water.

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And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine
anger be hot against me, and I will speak

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but this once.

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Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once
with the fleece.

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Let it now be dry only upon the fleece,
and upon all the ground let there be dew.

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And God did so that night, for it was dry
upon the fleece only, and there was dew on

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all the ground.