Hakim-hakim 6:16

6:16 The Lord said to him, “Ah, but ¹  I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.” ² 

Hakim-hakim 6:21

6:21 The Lord’s messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. ³  Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord’s messenger then disappeared. ⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 6:34

6:34 The Lord’s spirit took control of ⁵  Gideon. He blew a trumpet, ⁶  summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 6:36-40

6:36 Gideon said to God, “If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, ⁸  as you promised, then give me a sign as proof. ⁹  6:37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it ¹⁰  is dry, then I will be sure ¹¹  that you will use me to deliver Israel, ¹²  as you promised.” 6:38 The Lord did as he asked. ¹³  When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl. ¹⁴  6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. ¹⁵  Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” ¹⁶  6:40 That night God did as he asked. ¹⁷  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

[6:16]  ¹ tn Or “certainly.”

[6:16]  ² tn Heb “You will strike down Midian as one man.” The idiom “as one man” emphasizes the collective unity of a group (see Judg 20:8, 11). Here it may carry the force, “as if they were just one man.”

[6:21]  ³ tn Heb “extended the tip of the staff which was in his hand and touched the meat and unleavened bread.”

[6:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “went from his eyes.”

[6:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “clothed.”

[6:34]  ⁶ tn That is, “mustered an army.”

[6:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “Abiezer was summoned after him.”

[6:36]  ⁸ tn More literally, “you are about to deliver Israel by my hand.”

[6:36]  ⁹ tn The words “then give me a sign as proof” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:37]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all the ground.”

[6:37]  ¹¹ tn Or “know.”

[6:37]  ¹² tn Heb “you will deliver Israel by my hand.”

[6:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “And it was so.”

[6:38]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “dew dripped from the fleece – a bowl full of water.”

[6:39]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

[6:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

[6:40]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “God did so that night.”