{"query": "Gideon and the Fleece", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_40152de5a116", "title": "Gideon and the Fleece", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Threshing in the winepress for fear; called mighty man of valor while hiding; tears down his father's altar at night; lays fleece twice; army reduced from thirty-two thousand to three hundred.\n\nFailur"}, {"id": "card_n_0042d98a8e3f", "title": "Easton: Fleece", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut. 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon’s fleece (Judg. 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleec"}, {"id": "card_src_book_8881", "title": "A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece — Charles Stewart Given", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece, by Charles Stewart Given. Subjects: Success; Conduct of life; Jason -- (Mythological character). Read the full text (publi"}, {"id": "card_src_word_golden_fleece", "title": "golden fleece", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "golden fleece: (noun) in Greek mythology, a fleece of gold owned by the king of Colchis and guarded in a sacred grove by a dragon; recovered by Jason and the Argonauts"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_7_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 7:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 7:10 — Here, I. God, by the prophet, makes a gracious offer to Ahaz, to confirm the foregoing predictions, and his faith in them, by such sign or miracle as he should choose (Isa 7:10, Isa 7"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_judges_7_16", "title": "Matthew Henry on Judges 7:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Judges 7:16 — Here is, I. The alarm which Gideon gave to the hosts of Midian in the dead time of the night; for it was intended that those who had so long been a terror to Israel, and had so often "}, {"id": "card_n_86cd9a1e1fce", "title": "Easton: Gideon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Jerubbaal (Judg. 6:29, 32), was the first of the judges whose history is circumstantially narrated (Judg. 6-8). 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Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Avarice -- Fiction; Charity -- Fiction; Romance fiction; Pride and vanity -- Fiction; Awards -- Fiction. Read the full text (pu"}, {"id": "card_src_book_1614", "title": "The Golden Fleece: A Romance — Julian Hawthorne", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Golden Fleece: A Romance, by Julian Hawthorne. Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1"}, {"id": "card_src_book_49664", "title": "Gideon Bands for work within the race and for work without the race a message to the colored people of the United States — Francis J. (Francis James) Grimké", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gideon Bands for work within the race and for work without the race a message to the colored people of the United States, by Francis J. (Francis James) Grimké. Subjects: African Americans. 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A city on the east of Jordan, identified with Tell Dar’ala, a high mound, "}]}