Judges 7

¹ And Jerubbaal (he [is] Gideon) rises early, and all the people who [are] with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian has been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley. ² And Yahweh said unto Gideon, "Too many [are] the people who [are] with you for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand has given salvation to me; ³ and now, call, I pray you, in the ears of the people, saying, Whoso [is] afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from mount Gilead"; and there turn back of the people twenty and two thousand, and ten thousand have been left. ⁴ And Yahweh said unto Gideon, "Yet [are] the people too many; bring them down unto the water, and I refine it for you there; and it has been, he of whom I say unto you, This does go with you - he does go with you; and any of whom I say unto you, This does not go with you - he does not go." ⁵ And he brings down the people unto the water, and Yahweh said unto Gideon, "Every one who laps with his tongue of the water as the dog laps - you do set him apart; also every one who bows on his knees to drink." ⁶ And the number of those lapping with their hand unto their mouth is three hundred men, and all the rest of the people have bowed down on their knees to drink water. ⁷ And Yahweh said unto Gideon, "By the three hundred men who are lapping I save you, and have given Midian into your hand, and all the people go, each to his place." ⁸ And the people take the provision in their hand, and their trumpets, and every man of Israel he has sent away, each to his tents; and on the three hundred men he has kept hold, and the camp of Midian has been by him at the lower part of the valley. ⁹ And it comes to pass, on that night, that Yahweh said unto him, "Rise, go down into the camp, for I have given it into your hand"; ¹⁰ and if you are afraid to go down - go down, you and Phurah your young man, unto the camp, ¹¹ and you have heard what they speak, and afterwards are your hands strengthened, and you have gone down against the camp." And he goes down, he and Phurah his young man, unto the extremity of the fifties who [are] in the camp; ¹² and Midian and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which [is] on the sea-shore for multitude. ¹³ And Gideon comes in, and lo, a man is recounting to his companion a dream, and said, "Lo, a dream I have dreamed, and lo, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it comes in unto the tent, and smites it, and it falls, and turns it upwards, and the tent has fallen." ¹⁴ And his companion answers and said, "This is nothing save the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; Elohim has given into his hand Midian and all the camp." ¹⁵ And it comes to pass, when Gideon hears the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he bows himself, and turns back unto the camp of Israel, and said, "Rise you, for Yahweh has given into your hand the camp of Midian." ¹⁶ And he divides the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and puts trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. ¹⁷ And he said unto them, "Look at me, and thus do; and lo, I am coming into the extremity of the camp - and it has been - as I do so you do"; ¹⁸ and I have blown with a trumpet - I and all who [are] with me, and you have blown with trumpets, even you, round about all the camp, and have said, For Yahweh and for Gideon." ¹⁹ And Gideon comes - and the hundred men who [are] with him - into the extremity of the camp, [at] the beginning of the middle watch (it has only just confirmed the watchmen), and they blow with trumpets - dashing in pieces also the pitchers which [are] in their hand; ²⁰ and the three detachments blow with trumpets, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the trumpets to blow, and they cry, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon." ²¹ And they stand each in his place, round about the camp, and all the camp runs, and they shout, and flee; ²² and the three hundred blow the trumpets, and Yahweh sets the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp flees unto Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, unto the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath. ²³ And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian. ²⁴ And messengers has sent Gideon into all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down to meet Midian, and capture before them the waters unto Beth-Barah, and the Jordan"; and every man of Ephraim is called, and they capture the waters unto Beth-Barah, and the Jordan, ²⁵ and they capture two of the heads of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb, and slay Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they have slain at the wine-vat of Zeeb, and they pursue unto Midian; and the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they have brought in unto Gideon beyond the Jordan.