⁹ That night the Lord said to Gideon, “Get up. Go down and attack the camp of the Midianites, because I will give ·them to you [^Lit into your hands]. ¹⁰ But if you are afraid to go down, take your servant Purah with you. ¹¹ When you come to the camp of Midian, you will hear what they are saying. Then ·you will not be afraid [^Lyour hands will be strengthened] to attack the camp.”

Gideon Is Encouraged

So Gideon and his servant Purah went down to the ·edge [outposts; guardposts] of the enemy camp. ¹² The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the ·peoples from [^Lsons of] the east were camped in that valley. ·There were so many of them they seemed like locusts [^L…like locusts in numbers/greatness]. Their camels could not be counted because they were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore!

¹³ When Gideon came to the enemy camp, he heard a man telling his friend about a dream. He was saying, “[^LLook; ^TBehold] I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into the camp of Midian. It hit the tent so hard that the tent turned over and fell flat!”

¹⁴ The man’s friend said, “·Your dream is about [^LThis can be nothing except] the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. God ·will hand [^Lhas given into his hand] Midian and the whole army over to him!”