Judges 07 Gideon with three hundred men overcomes the Midianites

Judges 07
Gideon with three hundred men overcomes the Midianites
1 Then Jerubaal (who is Gideon) arose at dawn, and all the people who were with him, and camped by the source of Harod; so that there was the camp of the Midianites to the north, by the hill of Moré in the valley.
2 And the Lord said to Gideon, Many are the people that are with you, that I may give the Midianites into their hands; so that Israel may not boast against me, saying, My hand has delivered me.
3 Now therefore, he proclaims in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is cowardly and fearful, come back and hurry from the mountains of Gilead. Then the people returned twenty-two thousand, and ten thousand remained.
4 And the Lord said to Gideon, There are still many people: make them go down into the waters, and there I will prove them: and will the one I say to you: This one will go with you, this one will go; but everyone who I say to you: This one will not go with you, this one will not go.
5 And he brought the people down into the waters. Then the Lord said to Gideon: Whoever licks the water with his tongue, as a dog licks it, you will set it aside; as well as anyone who bends down on his knees drinking,
6 And it was the number of those who licked, holding their hands to their mouths, three hundred men; and all the rest of the people went down on their knees to drink the water,
7 And the Lord said to Gideon, With these three hundred men that licked the waters, I will deliver you, and will give the Midianites into your hand; so that all the other people each go to their place.
8 And the people took the provision and the horns in his hand, and he sent all the other men of Israel each to his tent, but the three hundred men kept him: and the camp of the Midianites was down in the valley.
9 And it came to pass that on that very night the Lord said to him, Arise, and go down to the camp, for I have given it into your hand.
10 And if you still fear going down, you and your boy Pura go down to the camp;
11 And you will hear what they say, and then your hands will strain and go down to the camp. Then he went down with his boy Pura to the end of the sentries that were in the camp.
12 And the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and all the children of the east lay in the valley like locusts in multitude: and their camels were innumerable, like the sand that is on the seashore in multitude.
13 So when Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling his companion a dream, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, behold, a toasted barley bread rolled through the Midianites' camp, and reached the tents, and smote them, and they fell, and upset them from top to bottom, and were crushed.
14 And his companion answered and said, This is none other than the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, an Israelite man. God has given the Midianites, and all this camp, into his hand.
15 And it came to pass, when Gideon heard the narration of this dream, and its explanation, that he loved it; and he returned to the camp of Israel, and said, Arise, for the Lord has given the camp of the Midianites into your hands.
16 Then he divided the three hundred men into three squads: and gave them horns and empty pitchers with torches lit in their hands.
17 And he said to them, Look at me, and do as I do: and, behold, when I come to the end of the camp, it will be that as I do, so will you do.
18 If I and all who are honking my horn will sound, then you will also sound the horn around all the camp, and say, By the Lord and Gideon.
19 So Gideon arrived, and the hundred men who were with him, at the end of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, the guards having already set themselves: and they blew the horns, and broke the pitchers in their hands.
20 So the three squadrons blew the horns, and broke the pitchers, and had the torches burning in their left hands, and the horns they blew in their right hands; and they exclaimed, Sword of the Lord and Gideon.
21 And each one remained in his place around the camp: then the whole army ran and screamed and fled.
22 And when the three hundred horns sounded, the Lord turned the sword against each other, and this throughout the camp: and the army fled to Zererah, to Beth-Sita, to the limits of Abel-Meola, above Tabatha.
23 Then the men of Israel, of Naphtali, and of Asher and of all Manasseh were summoned, and persecuted the Midianites.
24 Gideon also sent messengers to all the mountains of Ephraim, saying, Go down to meet the Midianites, and take their waters to Beth-Bara, namely the Jordan. As all the men of Ephraim were summoned, they took their waters as far as Beth-Bara and the Jordan.
25 And they arrested two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeber; and they killed Oreb in the rock of Oreb, and Zeebe killed in place of Zeebe, and pursued the Midianites: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeebe to Gideon, beyond the Jordan.