Genesis 18:30

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Summary

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

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Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and

do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.”

“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”

“Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

For He who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
And awesome above all those who are around Him?

Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;