Judges:7

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* 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 . * And LORD said to Gideon , The people who are with thee 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 . * Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people , saying , Whoever is fearful and trembling , let him return and depart from mount Gilead . And there returned of the people twenty-two thousand , and there remained ten thousand . * And LORD said to Gideon , The people are yet too many . Bring them down to the water , and I will try them for thee there . And it shall be , that of whom I say to thee , This man shall go with thee , the same shall go with thee , and of w * So he brought down the people to the water . And LORD said to Gideon , Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue , as a dog laps , him thou shall set by himself . Likewise everyone who bows down upon his knees to drink . * And the number of those who lapped , putting their hand to their mouth , was three hundred men , but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water . * And LORD said to Gideon , By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you , and deliver the Midianites into thy hand . And let all the people go every man to his place . * So the people took provision 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 . * And it came to pass the same night , that LORD said to him , Arise , get thee down into the camp , for I have delivered it into thy hand . * But if thou fear to go down , go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp . * And thou shall hear what they say , and afterward thy hands shall be strengthened to go down into the camp . Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp . * And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude , and their camels were without number , as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude . * And when Gideon came , behold , there was a man telling a dream to his fellow . And he said , Behold , I dreamed a dream . And , lo , a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian , and came to the tent , and smote it so that it fel * And his fellow answered and said , This is nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash , a man of Israel . Into his hand God has delivered Midian , and all the army . * And it was so , when Gideon heard the telling of the dream , and the interpretation of it , that he worshipped . And he returned into the camp of Israel , and said , Arise , for LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand . * And he divided the three hundred men into three companies , and he put trumpets into the hands of all of them , and empty pitchers , with torches inside the pitchers . * And he 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 ye shall do . * When I blow the trumpet , I and all who are with me , then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp , and say , For LORD and for Gideon . * So 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 * And the 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 out , The sword of LORD and of Gideon . * And they stood every man in his place round about the camp . And all the army ran , and they shouted , and put [them ] to flight . * And they blew the three hundred trumpets , and LORD set every man 's sword against his fellow , and against all the army . And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah , as far as the border of Abel-meholah , by Tabbath . * And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali , and out of Asher , and out of all Manasseh , and pursued after Midian . * And Gideon 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 * And they 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 J

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