Judges Chapter 7

• Judges 7:1
  Judges.
• Judges 7:2
  Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the n...
• Judges 7:3
  The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying,...
• Judges 7:4
  Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-...
• Judges 7:5
  The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those w...
• Judges 7:6
  So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall s...
• Judges 7:7
  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 on their knees to ...
• Judges 7:8
  The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go,...
• Judges 7:9
  So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hu...
• Judges 7:10
  That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
• Judges 7:11
  But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
• Judges 7:12
  You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the ...
• Judges 7:13
  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 n...
• Judges 7:14
  When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread t...
• Judges 7:15
  His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with a...
• Judges 7:16
  It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “A...
• Judges 7:17
  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 p...
• Judges 7:18
  He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
• Judges 7:19
  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 shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon...
• Judges 7:20
  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 s...
• Judges 7:21
  The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which t...
• Judges 7:22
  They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
• Judges 7:23
  They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth...
• Judges 7:24
  The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
• Judges 7:25
  Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Ba...
• Judges 7:26
  They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian...