⁹ Now on the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, ^(A)for I have handed it over to you. ¹⁰ But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp, ¹¹ so that you will hear what they say; and ^(B)afterward ^[a]you will have the courage to go down against the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to the ^[b]outposts of the army that was in the camp. ¹² Now the Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the ^[c]people of the east were lying in the valley ^(C)as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, ^(D)as numerous as the sand on the seashore. ¹³ When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I ^[d]had a dream; ^[e]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it ^[f]upside down so that the tent collapsed.” ¹⁴ And his friend replied, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has ^(E)handed over to him Midian and all the camp.”