² And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to hand Midian over to them, ^(A)otherwise Israel would ^[a]become boastful, saying, ‘My own ^[b]power has saved me.’ ³ Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘^(B)Whoever is afraid and worried, is to return and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand from the people returned, but ten thousand remained.