Judges 7

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 Madyan was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2Allah said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Madyanis into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me. 3Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 4Allah said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go. 5So he brought down the people to the water: and Allah said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink. 6The 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. 7Allah said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Madyanis into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place. 8So the people took food 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 Madyan was beneath him in the valley. 9It happened the same night, that Allah said to him, Arise, go down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. 10But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp: 11and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp. 12The Madyanisand the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the sea-shore for multitude. 13When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Madyan, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat. 14His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon Ibn Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Madyan, and all the army. 15It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Allah has delivered into your hand the army of Madyan. 16He 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. 17He 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 shall you do. 18When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Allah and for Gideon. 19So 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 were in their hands. 20The 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, The sword of Allah and of Gideon. 21They stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. 22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Allah 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. 23The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Madyan. 24Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Madyan, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. 25They took the two princes of Madyan, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Madyan: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

 

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