Judges 6:16

I will be with thee. — See Exodus 3:12; Joshua 1:5.

Smite the Midianites as one man. — See Chap’

19 1:8; Numbers 14:15.

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As one man — As easily, as if they were all but one man.

¹⁶ And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

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Judges 6:16