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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration
yiśrā'ēl
Pronunciation
yis-raw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x

The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x
The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

  1. Israel = "God prevails"

    1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

    2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

      1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

      2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

      3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.
STRONGS H3478: Abbreviations
יִשְׂרָאֵל 2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (Ēl persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let Ēl persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let Ēl contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Chronicles 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Genesis 36:31; 1 Kings 16:29. — On a possibly relation of יִשׂ׳ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּ); — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine. second name of Jacob Genesis 32:29 + 28 times Genesis (JE), Exodus 32:13 (JE), Hosea 12:13; Judges 18:29; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 1:34 + 8 times Chronicles, Psalm 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ruth 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (literal) Genesis 42:5 + 3 times E, + 2 times P + Exodus 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Exodus 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 30:6.
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculineJudges 11:17 f but feminine 1 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 24:9 [not || 1 Chronicles 21:5], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (see בֵּן):
a.
(1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Genesis 47:27 (J), Genesis 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times J E, Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Genesis 34:7; Exodus 12:15 + 42 times P; Judges 5:2, 7 (twice in verse) + 104 times Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-12; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ of whole people 2 Samuel 8:15 +, of whole army 2 Samuel 11:1 +, opposed to Judah 2 Samuel 2:9 + (so also later).
(2) יִשׂ׳ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, 2 Samuel 2:9, compare 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 4:1; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 1:35; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:5 +; so at disruption 1 Kings 12:16 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 12:18, 19; then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, 1 Kings 12:28; 1Ki 24:7; 1Ki 24:10 + very often Kings, Amos 1:1; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:14 +, Hosea 1:5; Hosea 4:15 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 +, Micah 1:13, etc.
(3) יִשׂ׳ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 8:18; Micah 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 12:17; after fall of Samaria, יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 23:22; Isaiah 17:9; Psalm 103:7; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Jeremiah 2:14, 31; Jeremiah 4:1 +, Ezekiel 13:2, 4, 16; Ezekiel 14:1, 7, 9 +, Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:24 +, Ezra 2:59 = Nehemiah 7:61; Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:11 +, Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 10:3 +, Psalm 14:7 (twice in verse) = Psalm 53:7 [Psalm 53:6] (twice in verse), Psalm 147:2; Psalm 149:2 +, etc.
(4) usage in Chronicles: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Chronicles 2:7 + 110 times, of Northern kingdom 2 Chronicles 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 2 Chronicles 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times
(5) יִשׂ׳ personified as עֶבֶד י׳, Isaiah 44:1, 21; Isaiah 49:3.
b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳,
(1) of undivided people Exodus 1:12 (J), Exodus 3:9 (E) + 72 times J E, Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 10:6 + 25 times D, Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] + 327 times P; Judges 1:1 + 60 times Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-12; in 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise).
(2) seldom of Northern kingdom Amos 2:11 + 9 times Amos, Hosea; 2 Chronicles 13:12 + 7 times Chronicles.
(3) of Judah (late) Ezekiel 2:3; Nehemiah 1:6 (twice in verse); Ezra 3:1; Joel 4:16 +, 2 Chronicles 31:5.
c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Exodus 16:31; Exodus 40:38 + 142 times (see בַּיִת 5d (δ); + 81 times Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially Exodus 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Isaiah 8:14.
d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of י׳) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1d (3).
†e. יִשׂ׳ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3; 1 Chronicles 9:2; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ Ezra 2:70; Ezra 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ Ezra 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 10:40, compare שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 11:20.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:29; 32:32; 34:7; 36:31; 42:5; 47:27; 49:7

Exodus

1:7; 1:12; 3:9; 6:14; 12:15; 16:31; 28:9; 32:13; 37:16; 40:38

Numbers

1:20; 26:5

Deuteronomy

1:1; 3:18; 10:6; 18:6; 33:10

Judges

1:1; 5:2; 5:7; 11:17; 18:29

Ruth

4:11

1 Samuel

17:21

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 8:15; 11:1; 12:7; 20:1; 24:9

1 Kings

1:35; 4:20; 5:5; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:28; 16:29; 18:31; 18:36

2 Kings

17:34; 21:8; 23:22

1 Chronicles

1:34; 2:1; 2:7; 4:16; 9:2; 21:5; 29:18

2 Chronicles

11:1; 12:6; 13:12; 19:8; 30:6; 31:5

Ezra

2:59; 2:70; 2:70; 3:1; 3:11; 9:1; 10:5; 10:25

Nehemiah

1:6; 7:61; 10:3; 10:34; 11:3; 11:20

Psalms

14:7; 53:6; 103:7; 105:23; 147:2; 149:2

Isaiah

1:3; 8:14; 8:18; 17:9; 40:27; 41:8; 42:24; 44:1; 44:21; 49:3

Jeremiah

2:3; 2:14; 2:31; 4:1; 50:17; 50:19

Ezekiel

2:3; 13:2; 13:4; 13:16; 14:1; 14:7; 14:9

Hosea

1:5; 4:15; 5:3; 5:5; 12:13

Amos

1:1; 2:6; 2:11; 3:14

Micah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15

H3478

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Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 184 times in 154 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Jdg 1:1–Jdg 6:37)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - After Joshua died, the Israelites asked the LORD, "Who should lead the invasion against the Canaanites and launch the attack?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - When the LORD's messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6 - When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, intending to take possession of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7 - The people worshiped the LORD throughout Joshua's lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive. These men had witnessed all the great things the LORD had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the LORD's presence or seen what he had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:11 - The Israelites did evil before the LORD by worshiping the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies' attacks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - The LORD was furious with Israel. He said, "This nation has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - Joshua left those nations to test Israel. I wanted to see whether or not the people would carefully walk in the path marked out by the LORD, as their ancestors were careful to do."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - These were the nations the LORD permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel - he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - They were left to test Israel, so the LORD would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - The Israelites did evil in the LORD's sight. They forgot the LORD their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim's subjects for eight years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - When the Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, he raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - The LORD's spirit empowered him and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the LORD handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12 - The Israelites again did evil in the LORD's sight. The LORD gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because they had done evil in the LORD's sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - When the Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud, delivered Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:1 - The Israelites again did evil in the LORD's sight after Ehud's death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - The Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, because Sisera had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, and he cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She would sit under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, "Is it not true that the LORD God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23 - That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - Israel's power continued to overwhelm King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - "When the leaders took the lead in Israel, When the people answered the call to war - Praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - Hear, O kings! Pay attention, O rulers! I will sing to the LORD! I will sing to the LORD God of Israel!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains trembled before the LORD, the God of Sinai; before the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - Warriors were scarce, they were scarce in Israel, until you arose, Deborah, until you arose as a motherly protector in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart went out to Israel's leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - Hear the sound of those who divide the sheep among the watering places; there they tell of the Lord's victorious deeds, the victorious deeds of his warriors in Israel. Then the LORD's people went down to the city gates -

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1 - The Israelites did evil in the LORD's sight, so the LORD turned them over to Midian for seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7 - When the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help because of Midian,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - he sent a prophet to the Israelites. He said to them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'I brought you up from Egypt and took you out of that place of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - Then the LORD himself turned to him and said, "You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - Gideon said to him, "But Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Gideon said to God, "If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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 is dry, then I will be sure that you will use me to deliver Israel, as you promised."

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