Judges 7:1-7
1599 Geneva Bible
7 The Lord commandeth Gideon to send away a great part of his company. 22 The Midianites are discomfitted by a wondrous sort. 25 Oreb and Zeeb are slain.
1 Then (A)Jerubbaal (who is Gideon) rose up early, and all the people that were with him, and pitched beside [a]the well of Harod, so that the host of the Midianites was on the North side of them, in the valley by the hill of [b]Moreh.
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 make their vaunt [c]against me, and say, Mine hand hath saved me.
3 Now therefore proclaim in the audience of the people, and say, (B)Who so is timorous or fearful, let him return, and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people which were at mount Gilead, two and twenty thousand: so ten thousand remained.
4 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them down unto the water, and I will [d]try them for thee there: and of whom I say unto thee, This man shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee: and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This man shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water. And the Lord said unto Gideon, As many as lap the water with their tongues, as a dog lappeth, them put by themselves, and everyone that shall bow down his knees to drink, [e]put apart.
6 And the number of them that lapped by putting their hands to their mouths, were three hundred men: but all the remnant of the people kneeled down upon their knees to drink water.
7 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Gideon, By these three hundred men that lapped, will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other [f]people go every man unto his place.
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- Judges 7:1 Hebrew, En-harod.
- Judges 7:1 Hebrew, Hammoreh.
- Judges 7:2 God will not that any creature deprive him of his glory.
- Judges 7:4 I will give thee a proof to know them that shall go with thee.
- Judges 7:5 Let them depart as unmeet for this enterprise.
- Judges 7:7 That is, the one and thirty thousand, and 700. See verses 3 and 6.
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