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Judges 7:1
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Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people
that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and
the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the
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| Judges 7:2 |
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And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that
are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest
Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. |
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| Judges 7:3 |
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Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people,
saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount
Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained
ten thousand. |
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| Judges 7:4 |
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And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people are
yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there:
and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same
shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with
thee, the same shall not go. |
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| Judges 7:5 |
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So he brought down the people unto the water:
and Jehovah said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue,
as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth
down upon his knees to drink. |
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| Judges 7:6 |
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And the number of them that lapped, putting
their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people
bowed down upon their knees to drink water. |
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And Jehovah said unto Gideon, By the three hundred
men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and
let all the people go every man unto his place. |
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| Judges 7:8 |
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So the people took victuals in their hand, and
their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but
retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the
valley. |
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| Judges 7:9 |
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And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah
said unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into
thy hand. |
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| Judges 7:10 |
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But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah
thy servant down to the camp: |
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| Judges 7:11 |
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and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward
shall thy hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with
Purah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed men that were in the camp.
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| Judges 7:12 |
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And the Midianites and 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 upon the sea-shore for
multitude. |
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| Judges 7:13 |
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And when Gideon was come, behold, there was
a man telling a dream unto his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream;
and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto
the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the
tent lay flat. |
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| Judges 7:14 |
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And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing
else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand
God hath delivered Midian, and all the host. |
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| Judges 7:15 |
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And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling
of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned
into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Jehovah hath delivered into your
hand the host of Midian. |
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| Judges 7:16 |
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And he 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. |
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| Judges 7:17 |
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And he said unto 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 ye do. |
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| Judges 7:18 |
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When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are
with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say,
For Jehovah and for Gideon. |
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So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with
him, came unto 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 brake in
pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. |
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| Judges 7:20 |
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And the three companies blew the trumpets, and
brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets
in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of Jehovah and
of Gideon. |
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| Judges 7:21 |
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And they stood every man in his place round
about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
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And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and
Jehovah set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and
the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah,
by Tabbath. |
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| Judges 7:23 |
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And the men of Israel were gathered together
out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after
Midian. |
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| Judges 7:24 |
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And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the
hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, 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.
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| Judges 7:25 |
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And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb
and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress
of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon
beyond the Jordan. |
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