Judges 7:7-23

Judges 7:7-23

[7] And the LORD  said  unto Gideon,  By the three  hundred  men  that lapped  will I save  you, and deliver  the Midianites  into thine hand:  and let all the other people  every man  unto his place.  [8] So the people  took  victuals  in their hand,  and their trumpets:  and he sent  all  the rest of Israel  every man  unto his tent,  and retained  those three  hundred  men:  and the host  of Midian  was beneath him in the valley.  [9] And it came to pass the same night,  that the LORD  said  unto him, Arise,  get thee down  unto the host;  for I have delivered  it into thine hand.  [10] But if thou fear  to go down,  thou with Phurah  thy servant  down  to the host:  [11] And thou shalt hear  what they say;  and afterward  shall thine hands  be strengthened  to go down  unto the host.  Then went he down  with Phurah  his servant  unto the outside  of the armed men  that were in the host.  [12] And the Midianites  and the Amalekites  and all the children  of the east  lay  along in the valley  like grasshoppers  for multitude;  and their camels  were without number,  as the sand  by the sea  side  for multitude.  [13] And when Gideon  was come,  behold, there was a man  that told  a dream  unto his fellow,  and said,  Behold, I dreamed  a dream,  and, lo, a cake  of barley  bread  tumbled  into the host  of Midian,  and came  unto a tent,  and smote  it that it fell,  and overturned  it, that the tent  lay along.  [14] And his fellow  answered  and said,  This is nothing else save the sword  of Gideon  the son  of Joash,  a man  of Israel:  for into his hand  hath God  delivered  Midian,  and all the host.  [15] And it was so, when Gideon  heard  the telling  of the dream,  and the interpretation  thereof, that he worshipped,  and returned  into the host  of Israel,  and said,  Arise;  for the LORD  hath delivered  into your hand  the host  of Midian.  [16] And he divided  the three  hundred  men  into three  companies,  and he put  a trumpet  in every man's hand,  with empty  pitchers,  and lamps  within  the pitchers.  [17] And he said  unto them, Look  on me, and do  likewise: and, behold, when I come  to the outside  of the camp,  it shall be that, as I do,  [18] When I blow  with a trumpet,  I and all that are with me, then blow  ye the trumpets  also on every side  of all the camp,  and say,  The sword of the LORD,  and of Gideon.  [19] So Gideon,  and the hundred  men  that were with him, came  unto the outside  of the camp  in the beginning  of the middle  watch;  and they had but  newly  the watch:  and they blew  the trumpets,  and brake  the pitchers  that were in their hands.  [20] And the three  companies  blew  the trumpets,  and brake  the pitchers,  and held  the lamps  in their left  hands,  and the trumpets  in their right  hands  to blow  withal: and they cried,  The sword  of the LORD,  and of Gideon.  [21] And they stood  every man  in his place round about  the camp:  ran,  and cried,  and fled.  [22] And the three  hundred  blew  the trumpets,  and the LORD  set  every man's  sword  against his fellow,  even throughout all the host:  fled  to Bethshittah  in Zererath,  and to the border  of Abelmeholah,  unto Tabbath.  [23] And the men  of Israel  gathered themselves together  out of Naphtali,  and out of Asher,  and out of all Manasseh,  and pursued  after  the Midianites.