|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Judges 7:1
|
|
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people
that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that
the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh,
in the valley. |
|
|
|
|
| Judges 7:2 |
|
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that
are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest
Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:3 |
|
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of
the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart
early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand;
and there remained ten thousand. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:4 |
|
And the LORD 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. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:5 |
|
So he brought down the people unto the water:
and the LORD 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. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:6 |
|
And the number of them that lapped, putting
their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people
bowed down upon their knees to drink water. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:7 |
|
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 go every man unto his place. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:8 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:9 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:10 |
|
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah
thy servant down to the host: |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:11 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:12 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:13 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:14 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:15 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:16 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:17 |
|
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,
so shall ye do. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:18 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| Judges 7:19 |
|
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 set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers
that were in their hands. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:20 |
|
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. |
| |
|
|
| Judges 7:21 |
|
And they stood every man in his place round
about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. |
|
|
|
|
| Judges 7:22 |
|
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and
the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host:
and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah,
unto Tabbath. |
|
|
|
|
| Judges 7:23 |
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
| Judges 7:24 |
|
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount
Ephraim, saying, come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters
unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together,
and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. |
|
|
|
|
| Judges 7:25 |
|
And they took two princes of the Midianites,
Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the
winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb
to Gideon on the other side Jordan. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
