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The Lord said to Gideon, “I will save you through the three hundred men who lapped up their water. I will deliver the Midianites into your hands. Let everyone else go back home.”[a] So they took the other people’s provisions, and they placed their trumpets in their hands. Gideon sent all the other Israelite men back to their homes, but he kept three hundred men with him.

The army of Midian was camped in the valley below them. That same night the Lord said to him, “Rise up, go down against the army, for I have delivered them into your hands. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:7 By reducing the army to such a small number, it would be apparent to all that the victory came from God and turn Gideon and his men back to the true God.