Judges 6:36-40
The Sign of the Fleece
36 aThen Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.” 38And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. 39Then Gideon said to God, b“Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.” 40And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.2 Kings 20:8-11
8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?” 9And Isaiah said, “This shall be cthe sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?” 10And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow dto lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.” 11And Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, eand he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.Isaiah 37:30
30“And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.Isaiah 38:7-8
7“This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised: 8 fBehold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined. ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Isaiah 38:22
22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”Jeremiah 19:1
The Broken Flask
1Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy ha potter’s earthenware iflask, and take some of jthe elders of the people and some of kthe elders of the priests,Jeremiah 19:10
10“Then lyou shall break mthe flask in the sight of the men who go with you,Jeremiah 51:63-64
63When you finish reading this book, n, otie a stone to it pand cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, 64and say, q‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, rand they shall become exhausted.’”Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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