¶ 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 [a]people go every man unto his place.

¶ So the people took victuals [b]with them, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man unto his tent, and [c]retained the three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in a valley.

¶ And the same night the Lord said unto him, Arise, [d]get thee down unto the host: for I have delivered it into thine hand.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:7 That is, the one and thirty thousand, and 700. See verses 3 and 6.
  2. Judges 7:8 Hebrew, in their hands.
  3. Judges 7:8 Or, encouraged.
  4. Judges 7:9 Thus the Lord by divers means doth strengthen him, that he faint not in so great an enterprise.

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