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What, Lord! said he, I deliver Israel? Why, my clan is the poorest in all Manasses, and in all my father’s house none counts for so little as I. (Judges 6, 15)
And Gedeon asked for a sign from God: If thou meanest to fulfil thy promise, and make use of me to deliver Israel, let me have proof of it. (Judges 6, 36)
This fleece shall lie on the threshing-floor; fall the dew on the fleece only, and let the ground be dry, I shall know that thy promise holds good; I am to be the means of Israel’s deliverance. (Judges 6, 37)
This is a great army thou hast with thee, the Lord told Gedeon. I must not grant victory over Madian to an army like this, or the Israelites would boast that they had no need of me; that their own strength had brought them deliverance. (Judges 7, 2)
but the Lord said to Gedeon, These three hundred men who lapped the water shall win you deliverance; I will put the Madianites in their power. Send all the rest of thy companions home. (Judges 7, 7)
Why, said the other, what should this be but the sword of that Israelite, Gedeon the son of Joas? The Lord means to put Madian and all Madian’s host into his power. (Judges 7, 14)
till at last in their flight they reached as far as Bethsetta, and the river-bank at Abelmehula in Tebbath. Here the Israelites from Nephthali and Aser and the whole of Manasses gave chase; (Judges 7, 23)
And now all the Israelites would have Gedeon, the man who delivered them from Madian, become their ruler, and his descendants after him. (Judges 8, 22)
It was only after the death of Gedeon that the Israelites went back to their old ways, and played the wanton with gods of the country-side. They had a covenant now with Baal, that he should be their god, (Judges 8, 33)
but the vine said, What, would you have me cease to yield wine, wine that both God and man delight in, to be the foremost of the trees? (Judges 9, 13)
that put his life in peril, to deliver you from the power of Madian. (Judges 9, 17)
and, once he was dead, all the Israelites who marched with him went back to their homes. (Judges 9, 55)
