KJV:
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
NASB:
"That the leaders led in Israel, That the people volunteered, Bless the LORD!
KJV:
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
NASB:
"My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, The volunteers among the people; Bless the LORD!
KJV:
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
NASB:
"At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places, There they shall recount the righteous deeds of the LORD, The righteous deeds for His peasantry in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.
KJV:
Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
NASB:
"Then survivors came down to the nobles; The people of the LORD came down to me as warriors.
KJV:
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
NASB:
"From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down, Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples; From Machir commanders came down, And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of office.
KJV:
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
NASB:
"Zebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death, And Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
KJV:
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
NASB:
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.
KJV:
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
NASB:
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.'
KJV:
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
NASB:
"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.