The Book of Judges (WEB)
7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and
encamped 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. 7:2Yahweh said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too
many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me,
saying, My own hand has saved me. 7:3Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying,
Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned of
the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 7:4Yahweh said to Gideon, The
people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there: and it
shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of
whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go. 7:5So he brought down the
people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue,
as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to
drink. 7:6The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred
men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. 7:7Yahweh said to
Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into
your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place. 7:8So the people took victuals in their
hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the
three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley. 7:9It happened the same
night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into
your hand. 7:10But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp: 7:11and
you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the
camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who
were in the camp. 7:12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along
in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which
is on the sea-shore for multitude. 7:13When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a
dream to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, behold, a cake of barley bread
tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it
upside down, so that the tent lay flat. 7:14His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword
of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the
host. 7:15It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he
worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has delivered into
your hand the host of Midian. 7:16He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he
put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
7:17He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part
of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do. 7:18When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are
with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Yahweh and
for Gideon. 7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of
the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they
blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 7:20The three
companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and
the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The sword of Yahweh and of
Gideon. 7:21They stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they
shouted, and put them to flight. 7:22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every
man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah
toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 7:23The men of Israel were
gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after
Midian. 7:24Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down
against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. So all the
men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan.
7:25They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb,
and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of
Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
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