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1
Then Jerubbaal
(that is, Gideon)
and all
the people
who
were with him, rose early
and camped
beside
the spring
of Harod;
and the camp
of Midian
was on the north side
of them by the hill
of Moreh
in the valley.
2
The LORD
said
to Gideon,
"The people
who
are with you are too
many
for Me to give
Midian
into their hands,
for Israel
would become boastful,
saying,
'
My own power
has delivered
me.'
3
"Now
therefore come,
proclaim
in the hearing
of the
people
,
saying,
'
Whoever
is afraid
and trembling,
let him return
and depart
from Mount
Gilead.'"
So 22,000
people
returned,
but 10,000
remained.
4
Then the LORD
said
to Gideon,
"The people
are still
too many;
bring them down
to the water
and I will test
them for you there.
Therefore it shall be that he
of whom
I say
to you, 'This
one
shall go
with you,' he
shall go
with you; but everyone
of whom
I say
to you, 'This
one
shall not go
with you,' he
shall not go
."
5
So he brought
the people
down
to
the water
.
And the LORD
said
to Gideon,
"You shall separate
everyone
who
laps
the water
with his tongue
as a dog
laps
,
as well as
everyone
who
kneels
to drink."
6
Now the number
of those who lapped,
putting their hand
to their mouth,
was 300
men;
but all
the rest
of the people
kneeled
to drink
water.
7
The LORD
said
to Gideon,
"I will deliver
you with the 300
men
who lapped
and will give
the Midianites
into your hands;
so let all
the other people
go,
each man
to his home."
8
So
the 300
men took
the people's
provisions
and their trumpets
into their hands.
And Gideon sent
all
the other men
of Israel,
each
to his tent,
but retained
the 300
men;
and the camp
of Midian
was below
him in the v
all
ey.
9
Now the same
night
it came
about that the LORD
said
to him, "Arise,
go down
against the camp,
for I have given
it into your hands.
10
"But if
you are afraid
to go
down
, go
with Purah
your servant
down
to the camp,
11
and you will hear
what
they say;
and afterward
your hands
will be strengthened
that you may go
down
against the camp."
So he went
with Purah
his servant
down
to the outposts
of the army
that was in the camp.
12
Now the Midianites
and the Amalekites
and all
the sons
of the east
were lying
in the valley
as numerous
as locusts;
and their camels
were without
number,
as numerous
as the sand
on the seashore.
13
When Gideon
came,
behold,
a man
was relating
a dream
to his friend.
And he said,
"Behold,
I had
a dream
;
a loaf
of barley
bread
was tumbling
into the camp
of Midian,
and it came
to the tent
and struck
it so that it fell,
and turned
it upside down
so that the tent
lay flat."
14
His friend
replied,
"This
is nothing
less
than
the sword
of Gideon
the son
of Joash,
a man
of Israel;
God
has given
Midian
and all
the camp
into his hand."
15
When Gideon
heard
the account
of the dream
and its interpretation,
he bowed in worship.
He returned
to
the camp
of Israel
and said,
"Arise,
for the LORD
has given
the camp
of Midian
into your hands."
16
He divided
the 300
men
into three
companies,
and he put
trumpets
and empty
pitchers
into the hands
of all
of them, with torches
inside
the
pitchers
.
17
He said
to them, "Look
at me and
do
likewise.
And behold,
when I come
to the outskirts
of the camp,
do
as I
do
.
18
"When I and
all
who
are with me
blow
the trumpet,
then you also
blow
the trumpets
all
around
the camp
and say,
'For the LORD
and for Gideon.'"
19
So Gideon
and the hundred
men
who
were with him came
to the outskirts
of the camp
at the beginning
of the middle
watch,
when they had just
posted
the watch;
and they blew
the trumpets
and smashed
the pitchers
that were in their hands.
20
When the three
companies
blew
the trumpets
and broke
the pitchers,
they held
the torches
in their left
hands
and
the trumpets
in their right
hands
for blowing,
and cried,
"A sword
for the LORD
and for Gideon!"
21
Each
stood
in his place
around
the camp;
and all
the army
ran,
crying
out as they fled.
22
When they blew
300
trumpets,
the LORD
set
the sword
of one
against another
even throughout the whole
army;
and the army
fled
as far
as Beth-shittah
toward Zererah,
as far
as the edge
of Abel-meholah,
by Tabbath.
23
The men
of Israel
were summoned
from Naphtali
and Asher
and all
Manasseh,
and they pursued
Midian.
24
Gideon
sent
messengers
throughout
all
the hill country
of Ephraim
,
saying,
"Come down
against
Midian
and take
the waters
before them,
as far
as Beth-barah
and the Jordan.
"
So
all
the men
of Ephraim
were summoned
and they took
the waters
as far
as Beth-barah
and the Jordan.
25
They captured
the two
leaders
of Midian,
Oreb
and
Zeeb
,
and they killed
Oreb
at the rock
of
Oreb
,
and they killed
Zeeb
at the wine press
of
Zeeb
,
while they pursued
Midian;
and they brought
the heads
of
Oreb
and
Zeeb
to Gideon
from across
the Jordan.
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