Judges 6:32–40

³²That day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, since Joash said, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he tore down his altar.

THE SIGN OF THE FLEECE

³³All the Midianites, Amalekites, and people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Jezreel Valley.^f

³⁴The Spirit of the Lord enveloped Gideon,^g and he blew the trumpet and the Abiezrites rallied behind him. ³⁵He sent messengers throughout all of Manasseh, who rallied behind him. He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, who also came to meet him.

³⁶Then Gideon said to God, “If you will deliver Israel by me, as you said, ³⁷I will put a wool fleece here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by me, as you said.” ³⁸And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.

³⁹Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.” ⁴⁰That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.