Gideon · Issue #3 of 4
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Judges 7:2–7, Judges 7:16–22 · World English Bible
Judges 7:2
The LORD said to Gideon,
The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Judges 7:3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
Judges 7:4
The LORD said to Gideon,
There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.
Judges 7:5
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon,
Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.
Judges 7:6
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 on their knees to drink water.
Judges 7:7
The LORD said to Gideon,
I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.
Judges 7:16
He 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.
Judges 7:17
He said to them,
Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
Judges 7:18
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
Judges 7:19
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. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
Judges 7:20
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted,
The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!
Judges 7:21
They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
Judges 7:22
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the 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.
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