7Jerub-Baal (Gideon) got up early the next morning, all his troops right there with him. They set up camp at Harod's Spring. The camp of Midian was in the plain, north of them near the Hill of Moreh.H3378H1439H5971H7925H2583H5878H4264H4080H6828H1389H4176H6010

2GOD said to Gideon, "You have too large an army with you. I can't turn Midian over to them like this—they'll take all the credit, saying, 'I did it all myself,' and forget about me.H3068H559H1439H5971H7227H5414H4080H3027H3478H6286H559H3027H3467

3Make a public announcement: 'Anyone afraid, anyone who has any qualms at all, may leave Mount Gilead now and go home.'" Twenty-two companies headed for home. Ten companies were left.H4994H7121H241H5971H559H3373H2730H7725H6852H2022H1568H7725H5971H6242H8147H505H7604H6235H505

4GOD said to Gideon: "There are still too many. Take them down to the stream and I'll make a final cut. When I say, 'This one goes with you,' he'll go. When I say, 'This one doesn't go,' he won't go."H3068H559H1439H5971H7227H3381H4325H6884H559H3212H3212H559H3212H3212

5So Gideon took the troops down to the stream. GOD said to Gideon: "Everyone who laps with his tongue, the way a dog laps, set on one side. And everyone who kneels to drink, drinking with his face to the water, set to the other side."H3381H5971H4325H3068H559H1439H3952H4325H3956H3611H3952H3322H3766H1290H8354

6Three hundred lapped with their tongues from their cupped hands. All the rest knelt to drink.H4557H3952H3027H6310H7969H3967H376H3499H5971H3766H1290H8354H4325

7GOD said to Gideon: "I'll use the three hundred men who lapped at the stream to save you and give Midian into your hands. All the rest may go home."H3068H559H1439H7969H3967H376H3952H3467H5414H4080H3027H5971H3212H376H4725

8After Gideon took all their provisions and trumpets, he sent all the Israelites home. He took up his position with the three hundred. The camp of Midian stretched out below him in the valley.H5971H3947H6720H3027H7782H7971H376H3478H376H168H2388H7969H3967H376H4264H4080H6010

9That night, GOD told Gideon: "Get up and go down to the camp. I've given it to you.H3915H3068H559H6965H3381H4264H5414H3027

10If you have any doubts about going down, go down with Purah your armor bearer;H3373H3381H3381H6513H5288H3381H4264

11when you hear what they're saying, you'll be bold and confident." He and his armor bearer Purah went down near the place where sentries were posted.H8085H1696H310H3027H2388H3381H4264H3381H6513H5288H7097H2571H4264

12Midian and Amalek, all the easterners, were spread out on the plain like a swarm of locusts. And their camels! Past counting, like grains of sand on the seashore!H4080H6002H1121H6924H5307H6010H697H7230H1581H4557H2344H3220H8193H7230

13Gideon arrived just in time to hear a man tell his friend a dream. He said, "I had this dream: A loaf of barley bread tumbled into the Midianite camp. It came to the tent and hit it so hard it collapsed. The tent fell!"H1439H935H376H5608H2472H7453H559H2492H2472H6742H6742H8184H3899H2015H4264H4080H935H168H5221H5307H2015H4605H168H5307

14His friend said, "This has to be the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite! God has turned Midian—the whole camp!—over to him."H7453H6030H559H2719H1439H1121H3101H376H3478H3027H430H5414H4080H4264

15When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he went to his knees before God in prayer. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up and get going! GOD has just given us the Midianite army!"H1439H8085H4557H2472H7667H7812H7725H4264H3478H559H6965H3068H5414H3027H4264H4080

16He divided the three hundred men into three companies. He gave each man a trumpet and an empty jar, with a torch in the jar.H2673H7969H3967H376H7969H7218H5414H7782H3027H7386H3537H3940H8432H3537

17He said, "Watch me and do what I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly what I do.H559H7200H6213H935H7097H4264H6213H6213

18When I and those with me blow the trumpets, you also, all around the camp, blow your trumpets and shout, 'For GOD and for Gideon!'"H8628H7782H8628H7782H5439H4264H559H3068H1439

19Gideon and his hundred men got to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the sentries had been posted. They blew the trumpets, at the same time smashing the jars they carried.H1439H3967H376H935H7097H4264H7218H8484H821H389H6965H6965H8104H8628H7782H5310H3537H3027

20All three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands, ready to blow, and shouted, "A sword for GOD and for Gideon!"H7969H7218H8628H7782H7665H3537H2388H3940H8040H3027H7782H3225H3027H8628H7121H2719H3068H1439

21They were stationed all around the camp, each man at his post. The whole Midianite camp jumped to its feet. They yelled and fled.H5975H376H5439H4264H4264H7323H7321H5127H5127

22When the three hundred blew the trumpets, GOD aimed each Midianite's sword against his companion, all over the camp. They ran for their lives—to Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.H7969H3967H8628H7782H3068H7760H376H2719H7453H4264H4264H5127H1029H6888H8193H65H2888

23Israelites rallied from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all over Manasseh. They had Midian on the run.H376H3478H6817H5321H836H4519H7291H310H4080

24Gideon then sent messengers through all the hill country of Ephraim, urging them, "Come down against Midian! Capture the fords of the Jordan at Beth Barah."H1439H7971H4397H2022H669H559H3381H7125H4080H3920H4325H1012H3383H376H669H6817H3920H4325H1012H3383

25So all the men of Ephraim rallied and captured the fords of the Jordan at Beth Barah. They also captured the two Midianite commanders Oreb (Raven) and Zeeb (Wolf). They killed Oreb at Raven Rock; Zeeb they killed at Wolf Winepress. And they pressed the pursuit of Midian. They brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.H3920H8147H8269H4080H6159H2062H2026H6159H6697H6159H2062H2026H3342H2062H7291H4080H935H7218H6159H2062H1439H5676H3383