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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JDG 6:1 (B.C. 1256.) Midian conquers the Israelites.—Oppression and Anarchy rampant.
Then the Israelites did wrong in the eyes of the EVER-LIVING, so the EVER-LIVING gave them to the hand of Midian twelve years.
RF JDG 6:2 And the power of Midian was so strong over Israel, that the Israelites made for themselves entrenchments in the mountains, and caves, and towers;
RF JDG 6:3 and if the Israelites sowed, then Midian, and Amalek, and the Beni-Kedem came upon and assailed them
RF JDG 6:4 and wasted the whole breadth of the country to the pass of Gaza and left no means of subsistence for Israel, or sheep, or ox, or ass.
RF JDG 6:5 For they, and their cattle with them, advanced with their tents, coming in such immense numbers, both of themselves and their camels, that they could not be counted, and went over the country destroying it.
RF JDG 6:6 Thus Israel was thoroughly exhausted before Midian.
(B.C. 1249.) A Preacher exhorts to Reformation and to abandon Sin.
Then the Children of Israel cried to the EVER-LIVING.
RF JDG 6:7 And when the Israelites cried to the EVER-LIVING on account of Midian,
RF JDG 6:8 the EVER-LIVING sent a man, a preacher, to the sons of Israel and he said to them;—"The EVER-LIVING GOD of Israel says thus,—'I brought you from the Mitzeraim, and brought you from the House of Bondage,
RF JDG 6:9 and delivered you from the power of your opponents, and swept them before you, and gave to you this country.
RF JDG 6:10 Then I said to you, I am your EVER-LIVING GOD. You shall not reverence the gods of the Amorites, in whose country you reside,—but you would not listen to My voice.'"
RF JDG 6:11 (B.C. 1249.) He Calls upon Gideon to Lead his Nation.
Afterwards the Messenger of the EVER-LIVING went and sat under the oak which is at Afrah, belonging to Joash, and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a wine cellar, to hide it from the Midianites,
RF JDG 6:12 and the Messenger of the EVER-LIVING looked in at him, and said to him, "The EVER-LIVING is with you, brave man!
RF JDG 6:13 But Gideon answered him, "What, Sir! If the EVER-LIVING is with us, then why has all this come? And where are all His wonders that our fathers related to us, telling about the bringing us up from Mitzeraim? For now the EVER-LIVING has forsaken us, and put us under the foot of Midian!"
RF JDG 6:14 But the Noble Man 1 turned to him and replied; "Go with your courage and rescue Israel from the hand of Midian! Have I not sent you?"
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1. I translate the Hebrew word Jehovah, (Yhowah), as "Noble Man," as a high title, like our Lord, for a Peer, as it is evident this preacher was not the Creator, but a man as we are.—F.F.
RF JDG 6:15 He, however, returned, "Me, sir? How can I rescue Israel? The regiments of Manasseh have failed! and I am the youngest of my father's family!"
RF JDG 6:16 But the Noble Man answered to him; "Because I will be with you! And you shall defeat the Midianites like a single man."
RF JDG 6:17 Then he asked him, "If now, I have found favour in your eyes, and you have done me the kindness of speaking with me,
RF JDG 6:18 do not remove from here until I come back to you, when I will bring my present, and present it to you." So he replied, "I will sit down until you return."
RF JDG 6:19 Then Gideon went and killed a goat's kid, and baked an unfermented cake, and placed the meat on a tray, and put the broth in a basin, and brought to him under the oak, and presented it.
RF JDG 6:20 Then the divine Messenger said to him; "Take the meat and the biscuit, and ascend to the peak of Luz, and pour out the broth." And he did so,
RF JDG 6:21 when the Messenger of the EVER-LIVING extended the end of the staff which he had in his hand, and touched the meat and the biscuit, and fire came from the rock and consumed the meat and the biscuit! Then the Messenger of the EVER-LIVING went from his sight;
RF JDG 6:22 and Gideon perceived that he was a Messenger from the EVER-LIVING; so Gideon exclaimed, "Ah! Great LORD! I have certainly seen a Messenger of the EVER-LIVING face to face!"
RF JDG 6:23 And the NOBLE replied to him, "Peace to you! Fear not! You will not die!"
RF JDG 6:24 Consequently Gideon built there an altar to the EVER-LIVING, and it is called "The EVER-LIVING'S Peace," to this day. It is near Afrath of Aliazer.
RF JDG 6:25 In the night again the EVER-LIVING said to him, "Take the bull of your father's herd, and a second seven year bull, and overthrow your father's altar to Baal, and break the Shrine that is beside it,
RF JDG 6:26 and build an altar to your EVER-LIVING GOD, on the top of this refuge on the mound, and take the two bulls, and offer as a burnt-offering with the wood of the shrine which you have broken up."
RF JDG 6:27 (B.C. 1249.) Gideon destroys the alter of Baal.
So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the EVER-LIVING told him. But because he feared his father's family, and the men of the village, he could not do it by day, so did it by night.
RF JDG 6:28 When they arose in the morning and observed the altar of Bal thrown down and the shrine that was near it broken, and the two bulls burning upon the altar he had built,
RF JDG 6:29 then each said to his neighbour, "Who has done these things?" So they examined and enquired, and were told, "Gideon, the son of Joash, has done them!
RF JDG 6:30 The people of the village consequently said to Joash, "Bring out your son and let him die! for he has overthrown the altar of Bal and has broken the shrine that was by it."
RF JDG 6:31 But Joash replied to all who stood about him, "Would you defend Baal? If he can help you, then he can defend himself! If he is a god he can kill for himself this morning.—Let him defend himself for the overthrowing of his altar!"
RF JDG 6:32 So they named him at once Jerubbal, saying, "Let Baal destroy him,—for he overturned his altar."
RF JDG 6:33 (B.C. 1248.) Midian and Allies advance to fight Gideon and his Men.
In consequence the forces of Midian and Amalek, and the Beni-Kedem assembled together, and encamped in the plain of Jezraal.
RF JDG 6:34 But the Spirit of the EVER-LIVING descended upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet and summoned the Abiazerites after him,
RF JDG 6:35 and sent messengers to all Manasseh, and also summoned them after him; and he also sent messengers to Ashur, and Zebulon, and to Naphtali, and they went up to meet him.
RF JDG 6:36 (B.C. 1248.) Gideon asks a Proof of God's Call and help to himself.
Then Gideon said to GOD, "If You will save Israel by my hand, as You promised,
RF JDG 6:37 I will lay this fleece of wool on the level floor;—if the dew is on the fleece only, and dryness upon all the ground, then I shall understand that You will save Israel as You have promised."
RF JDG 6:38 And he arose in the morning and wrung the fleece, when as much dew ran from the fleece as filled a bucket with water.
RF JDG 6:39 Gideon, however, said to GOD, "Let not Your anger burn against me, and I will speak once again; I will try another time with the fleece. Let it now be dry on the fleece only, while there is dew on the ground."
RF JDG 6:40 So the EVER-LIVING made it thus that night. There was dryness in the fleece only, and upon the ground there came dew!




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