dew

And Gideon said vnto God, Let not thine anger be hote against me, and I will speake but this once: Let mee prooue, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Let it now be drie onely vpon the fleece, and vpon all the ground let there be deaw.

1611 marginal noteGen. 18.32.

And God did so that night: for it was drie vpon the fleece onely, and there was deaw on all the ground.

Yee mountaines of Gilboa, let there bee no dewe, neither let there be raine vpon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mightie is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though hee had not beene annointed with oile.

So shall wee come vpon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light vpon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him, there shall not be left so much as one.

¶ And Eliiah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said vnto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liueth, before whome I stand, there shall not be deaw nor raine these yeres, but according to my word.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Eliiahu. Luke 4.25.he is called Elias.

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 48.3. iames 5.17.

My roote was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night vpon my branch.

1611 marginal noteHeb. opened.

Hath the raine a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Thy people shalbe willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holinesse from the wombe of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

1611 marginal noteOr, more then the wombe of the morning: thou shalt haue, &c.

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dewe that descended vpon the mountaines of Zion, for there the LORD commanded the blessing: euen life for euermore.

By his knowledge the depthes are broken vp; and the cloudes droppe downe the dew.