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          DASV: Judges 7    

1 Then Jerubbaal, (that is, Gideon), and all the people who
were with him, rose up early, and camped beside the spring
of Harod. The camp of Midian was on the north side of them,
by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 Then the LORD told Gideon, "There are too many men for me to
hand the Midianites over to you. Israel would just brag to me,
'It was my own hand that saved me.'
3 Now then announce in the ears of the troops, 'Whoever is
fearful and shaking, let him go home and leave Mount Gilead.'
So 22,000 turned and went home, and 10,000 remained.
4 Then the LORD said to Gideon, "There are still too many.
Bring them down to the water, and I will sift them out for
you there. When I tell you, 'This one can go with you,' that
one shall go, and when I tell you, 'This one cannot go with
you,' that one shall not go."
5 So he brought down the troops to the water. The LORD said
to Gideon, "Every one who laps water from his hand with his tongue,
like a dog laps, you shall put to one side, and everyone who
knelt down drinking directly from the stream on the other.
6 Only 300 men lapped, putting their hands to their mouths.
All the rest of the troops knelted down to drink water.
7 Then the LORD said to Gideon, "By the 300 who lapped I will
save you, and hand the Midianites over to you. Let all
the rest of the men return home."
8 So the chosen troops took provisions and their trumpets.
He sent all the rest of the men of Israel back to their
own tents but retained the 300. The camp of Midian was
below him in the valley.

9 That same night, the LORD said to him, "Get up, go down
into the Midianite camp for I am handing it over to you.
10 But if you are afraid to go down, then go down into the
camp with just Purah your servant.
11 You will hear what the Midianites are saying and afterward
your hands will be strengthened enough to attack the camp."
So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of
the armed men guarding the camp.
12 The Midianites and Amalekites and all the people of the
east were positioned in the valley as thick as locusts.
Their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
13 As Gideon snuck up, there was a man telling of his dream
to his friend and he said, "I had a dream, in it a loaf of
barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian. It rolled
into the tent smashing it so hard that it was knocked down,
flipped upside down and then flattened."
14 His friend answered, "This is nothing other than the sword
of Gideon the son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed
over Midian and the whole army to him."

15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation,
he worshipped. Then he returned to the camp of Israel,
and ordered, "Get up, for the LORD has handed over the
army of Midian to you.
16 He divided the 300 men into three companies. He put
trumpets and empty jars into the hands of all of them,
with torches inside the jars.
17 Then he told them, "Look at me, and do what I do.
When I come to the edge of the camp, do exactly what
I do.
18 When I, and those with me, blow the trumpet, then blow
your trumpets also on every side of the entire the camp,
and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.'"

19 So Gideon, and the hundred men with him, approached
the outer edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle
of the guard shift, just after they had posted a new guard.
They blew the trumpets and smashed the clay jars that were
in their hands.
20 Then all three companies blew the trumpets and broke
the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and
the trumpets in their right hands. Then they shouted,
"The sword of the LORD and of Gideon."
21 They stood their ground, every man in his position
surrounding the camp. The whole army ran off,
shouting as they fled.
22 They blew the 300 trumpets, and the LORD caused them
to attack each other with their swords throughout the
enemy army. The army fled all the way to Beth-shittah
near Zererah, even as far as the border of Abel-meholah,
by Tabbath.

23 Then the men of Israel rallied from Naphtali, Asher
and all Manasseh, and chased after the Midianites.
24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country
of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian, and cut
them off from crossing the Jordan River, as far as
Beth-barah." So all the men of Ephraim were assembled,
and captured the Jordan River crossings as far as
Beth-barah.
25 They captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb.
They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed
at the winepress of Zeeb as they pursued the Midianites.
Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon,
who was now on the east side of the Jordan River.

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