7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon and all the people who 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 valley.
7:2 And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, that Israel not glorify themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me. 7:3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. And twenty-two thousand of the people returned and ten thousand remained.
7:4 And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people are yet too many. Bring them down to the water and I will try them for you there. And it will be, that of whom I say to you, This man will go with you, the same will go with you and of whomever I say to you, This man will not go with you, the same will not go.7:5 So he brought down the people to the water. And Jehovah said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you will set him by himself. Likewise everyone who bows down upon his knees to drink.
7:6 And the number of those who 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.
7:7 And Jehovah said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you* and deliver the Midianites into your hand. And let all the people go every man to his place. 7:8 So the people took provision in their hand and their trumpets. And he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men. And the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
7:9 And it happened the same night, that Jehovah said to him, Arise, get yourself down into the camp, because I have delivered it into your hand.
7:10 But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp. 7:11 And you will hear what they say and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for a multitude and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for a multitude.
7:13 And when Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his friend. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream. And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat. 7:14 And his friend answered and said, This is nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian and all the army into his hand.
7:15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped. And he returned into the camp of Israel and said, Arise, because Jehovah has delivered the army of Midian into your* hand.
7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and he put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty pitchers, with torches inside the pitchers.
7:17 And he said to them, Look on me and do likewise, and behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it will be that, as I do, so you* will do. 7:18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon.
7:19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him, came to 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 smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow. And they cried out, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.
7:21 And they stood every man in his place all around the camp. And all the army ran and they shouted and put them to flight. 7:22 And they blew the three hundred trumpets and Jehovah set every man's sword against his friend and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah {Beth Acacia; Place of Acacia} toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
7:23 And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali and out of Asher and out of all Manasseh and pursued after Midian. 7:24 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.
7:25 And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb and pursued Midian. And they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.