Judges:7
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 shall go with thee ,
the same shall go with thee ;
and of whomsoever I say unto thee ,
This shall not go with thee ,
the same shall not go .
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So he brought down the people unto the water :
and the LORD said unto Gideon ,
Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue ,
as a dog lappeth ,
him shalt thou set by himself ;
likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink .
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And the number of them 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 water .
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And the LORD said unto Gideon ,
By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you ,
and deliver the Midianites into thine hand :
and let all the other people go every man unto his place .
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So the people took victuals in their hand ,
and their trumpets :
and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent ,
and retained those three hundred men :
and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley .
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And it came to pass the same night ,
that the LORD said unto him ,
Arise ,
get thee down unto the host ;
for I have delivered it into thine hand .
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But if thou fear to go down ,
go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host :
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And thou shalt hear what they say ;
and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host .
Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host .
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And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude ;
and their camels were without number ,
as the sand by the sea side for multitude .
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And when Gideon was come ,
behold ,
there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow ,
and said ,
Behold ,
I dreamed a dream ,
and ,
lo ,
a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian ,
and came unto a tent ,
and smote it that it fell ,
and overturned it ,
that the tent lay along .
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And his fellow answered and said ,
This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash ,
a man of Israel :
for into his hand hath God delivered Midian ,
and all the host .
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And it was so ,
when Gideon heard the telling of the dream ,
and the interpretation thereof ,
that he worshipped ,
and returned into the host of Israel ,
and said ,
Arise ;
for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian .
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And he divided the three hundred men into three companies ,
and he put a trumpet in every man '
s hand ,
with empty pitchers ,
and lamps within the pitchers .
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And he said unto them ,
Look on me ,
and do likewise :
and ,
behold ,
when I come to the outside of the camp ,
it shall be that ,
as I do ,
so shall ye do .
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When I blow with a trumpet ,
I and all that are with me ,
then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp ,
and say ,
The sword of the LORD ,
and of Gideon .
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So Gideon ,
and the hundred men that were with him ,
came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch ;
and they had but newly set the watch :
and they blew the trumpets ,
and brake the pitchers that were in their hands .
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And the three companies blew the trumpets ,
and brake the pitchers ,
and held the lamps in their left hands ,
and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal :
and they cried ,
The sword of the LORD ,
and of Gideon .
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And they stood every man in his place round about the camp :
and all the host ran ,
and cried ,
and fled .
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And the three hundred blew the trumpets ,
and the LORD set every man '
s sword against his fellow ,
even throughout all the host :
and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath ,
and to the border of Abelmeholah ,
unto Tabbath .
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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 .
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And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim ,
saying ,
Come down against the Midianites ,
and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan .
Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together ,
and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan .
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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 pursued Midian ,
and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan .