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.
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I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: …
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-40)Here we have, I. The descent which the enemies of Israel made upon them, Jdg. 6:33. A vast number of Midianites, Amalekites, and Arabians, got together, and came over Jordan, none either caring or daring to guard that important and advantageous pass against them, and they made their headquarters in the valley of Jezreel, in the heart of Manasseh’s tribe, not far from Gideon’s city. Some think that…
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