Judges Chapter 7

Judges Chapter 7
1 Then Jerubbaal (who is Gideon) rose
up early and all the people that were
with him, and pitched beside the well of
Harod, so that the host of the Midianites
was on the north side of them in the
valley by the hill of Moreh. 2 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 make their vaunt against me, and
say, Mine hand hath saved me.
3 Now therefore proclaim in the
audience of the people, and say, Who so
is timorous or fearful, let him return, and
depart early from mount Gilead. And
there returned of the people which were
at mount Gilead, two and twenty
thousand: so ten thousand remained.
4 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 of whom I say unto
thee, This man shall go with thee, the
same shall go with thee: and of
whomsoever I say unto thee, This man
shall not go with thee, the same shall not
go.
5 So he brought down the people unto
the water. And the Lord said unto
Gideon, As many as lap the water with
their tongues as a dog lappeth, them put
by themselves, and every one that shall
bow down his knees to drink, put apart.
6 And the number of them that lapped by
putting their hands to their mouths, were
three hundred men: but all the remnant of
the people kneeled down upon their
knees to drink water.
7 Then the Lord said unto Gideon, By
these 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.
8 So the people took victuals with them,
and their trumpets: and he sent all the
rest of Israel, every man unto his tent,
and retained the three hundred men: and
the host of Midian was beneath him in a
valley.
9 And the same night the Lord said unto
him, Arise, get thee down unto the host:
for I have delivered it into thine hand.
10 But if thou fear to go down , then go
thou, and Phurah thy servant down to the
host,
11 And thou shalt hearken, what they
say, and so shall thine hands be strong to
go down unto the host. Then went he
down and Phurah his servant unto the
outside of the soldiers that were in the
host.
12 And the Midianites, and the
Amalekites and all they of the east, lay
in the valley like grasshoppers in
multitude, and their camels were without
number, as the sand which is by the sea
side for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold,
a man told a dream unto his neighbor,
and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream,
and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled
from above into the host of Midian, and
came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell,
and overturned it, that the tent fell down.
14 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.
15 When Gideon heard the dream told,
and the interpretation of the same, he
worshiped, and returned unto the host of
Israel, and said, Up: for the Lord hath
delivered into your hand the host of
Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred
men into three bands, and gave every
man a trumpet in his hand with empty
pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me,
and do likewise, when I come to the side
of the host: even as I do, so do you.
18 When I blow with a trumpet and all
that are with me, blow ye with trumpets
also on every side of the host, and say,
For the Lord, and for Gideon. 19 So
Gideon and the hundred men that were
with him, came unto the outside of the
host, in the beginning of the middle
watch, and they raised up the watchmen,
and they blew with their trumpets, and
break the pitchers that were in their
hands.
20 And the three companies blew with
trumpets and break 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.
21 And they stood, every man in his
place round about the host: and all the
host ran, and cried, and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew with
trumpets, and the Lord set every man's
sword upon his neighbor, and upon all
the host: so the host fled to Bethshittah in
Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah,
unto Tabbath. 23 Then the men
of Israel being gathered together out of
Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all
Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites.
24 And Gideon sent messengers unto all
mount Ephraim, saying, Come down
against the Midianites, and take before
them the waters unto Beth-barah, and
Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim
gathered together and took the waters
unto Beth-barah, and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the
Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb, and slew
Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and slew Zeeb
at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued
the Midianites, and brought the heads of
Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond
Jordan.