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* Then Jerubbaal , who [is ] Gideon , and all the people that [were ] with him rose up early and pitched camp beside the well of Harod so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north , on the other side of the hill of Moreh , in the valley . * And the LORD said unto Gideon , The people that [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 , cause it to be proclaimed in the ears of the people , saying , Whoever [is ] fearful and trembling , let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead . And twenty-two thousand of the people returned , and ten thousand remained . * And the LORD said unto Gideon , The people [are ] yet [too ] many ; bring them down unto the water , and I will try them for thee there ; and it shall be [that ] of whom I say unto thee , This [one ] shall go with thee , the same shall go with thee ; and of whoever I say unto thee , This [one ] shall not go with thee , the same shall not go . * So he brought the people down unto the water , and the LORD said unto Gideon , Every one that laps of the water with his tongue as a dog laps , him shalt thou set by himself ; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink . * And the number of those that lapped , [putting ] their hand to their mouth , were three hundred men ; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink the water . * Then the LORD said unto Gideon , With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into thy hand ; and let all the [other ] people go each one to his place . * And having taken provision for the people in his hands with their shofarot ; he sent all [the other ] Israelites each one to his tent and retained those three hundred men , and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley . * And it came to pass the same night , that the LORD said unto him , Arise and descend to the camp , for I have delivered it in thy hands . * But if thou art afraid to go down , go with Phurah thy servant down to the camp , * and thou shalt hear what they say ; and then thy hands shall be strengthened , and thou shalt go down to the camp . Then he went down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that [were ] in the camp . * And Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts in multitude , and their camels [were ] not numbered as the sand by the sea side for multitude . * And when Gideon arrived , behold , a man was telling a dream to his fellow , saying , Behold , I dreamed a dream that I saw a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and come unto the tents , and it smote them so that they fell and overturned them , and the tents fell . * And his fellow answered and said , This [is ] nothing else but the sword of Gideon , the son of Joash , a man of Israel , [for ] God has delivered the Midianites with all the camp into his hand . * And when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation , he worshipped ; and when he had returned into the camp of Israel , he said , Arise , for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hands . * And dividing the three hundred men [into ] three companies , he put a shofar in each man 's hand with empty pitchers and torches burning within the pitchers . * And he said unto them , Look at me and do as I do ; and , behold , when I come to the outside of the camp , as I do , so shall ye do . * I shall blow the shofar , I and all that [are ] with me , then ye shall blow the shofarot on every side of all the camp , and say , I AM The Hewer ! * So Gideon and the hundred men that [were ] with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch [when ] only the guards [were ] awake , and they blew the shofarot and broke the pitchers that [were ] in their hands . * And the three companies blew the shofarot ; and breaking the pitchers , they held the torches in their left hands and the shofarot in their right hands to blow [with ]; and they cried , The sword of I AM The Hewer ! * And they stood in their places round about the camp ; and all the camp was routed , and they fled crying out . * But the three hundred blew the shofarot , and the LORD set each man 's sword against his fellow , even throughout all the camp ; and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath [and ] to the border of Abelmeholah unto Tabbath . * And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali and out of Asher and out of all Manasseh and pursued after the Midianites . * Gideon also sent messengers throughout all Mount Ephraim , saying , Come down against the Midianites and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and the Jordan . Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together and took the waters unto Bethbarah and the Jordan . * And they took two princes of the Midianites , Oreb and Zeeb ; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb , and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb ; and [after they ] pursued Midian , they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan .:

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