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7 Then Jerubbaal (who is Gideon) rose up early, and all the people who were with him, and camped beside the well of Harod, so that the army of the Midianites was on the northern side of them, in the valley, by the hill of Moreh.
2 And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too numerous for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel glorifies himself against Me, and says, ‘My hand has saved me!’
3 “Now, therefore, proclaim in the audience of the people, and say, ‘Whoever is afraid or fearful, let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead.’” And twenty-two thousand of the people who were at Mount Gilead returned. So, ten thousand remained.
4 And the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. And of whomever I say to you, ‘This man shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you. And of whomever I say to you, ‘This man shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.”
5 So, he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “As many as lap the water with their tongues, as a dog laps, separate, likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men. But all the remaining people kneeled down upon their knees to drink water.
7 Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With these three hundred men who lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. And let all the other men go, each to his home.”
8 So, the people took provisions with them, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained the three hundred men. And the army of Midian was beneath him in a valley.
9 And the same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise. Go down against the army. For I have delivered it into your hand.
10 “But if you fear to go down, you and Purah, your servant, go down to the army.
11 “And you shall hear what they say, and so shall your hands be strong to go down against the army.” Then he and Purah, his servant, went down to an outpost of the soldiers who were in the camp.
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all those of the East lay in the valley, like grasshoppers in multitude. And their camels were without number, as the sand which is by the seaside in multitude.
13 And when Gideon had come, behold, a man told a dream to his neighbor, and said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream. And lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled from above, into the camp of Midian, and came into a tent, and struck it so that it fell. And it overturned it, so that the tent fell down.”
14 And his friend answered, and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand has God delivered Midian and all the army.”
15 When Gideon heard the dream told, and the interpretation of the same, he worshipped and returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Up! For the LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three bands, and gave every man a trumpet in his hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps inside the pitchers.
17 And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise when I come to the edge of the camp. Just as I do, so do you.
18 “When I blow with a trumpet, all who are with me also blow with trumpets, on every side of the camp, and say, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
19 So, Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outer edge of the camp, in the beginning of the middle watch, and they raised up the watchmen. And they blew with their trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew with trumpets and broke the pitchers. And they held the lamps in their left hand and the trumpets in their right hands, to blow them. And they cried, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”
21 And they stood, every man in his place, all around the camp. And the whole army ran and cried and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew with trumpets. And the LORD set every man’s sword upon his neighbor, and upon all the camp. So the army fled to Beth Hashittah in Zererah, to the border of Abel Meholah, to Tabbath.
23 Then the men of Israel being gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites.
24 And Gideon sent messengers to all Mount Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites, and take from them the waters up to Beth Barah and Jordan!” Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and took the waters up to Beth Barah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb, and killed Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and killed Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued the Midianites, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, beyond Jordan.
8 Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us in such a way that you did not call us when you went to fight with the Midianites?” And they chided with him sharply.
2 To whom he said, “Now what have I done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
3 “God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison with you?” And when he had thus spoken, then their spirits abated toward him.
4 And Gideon came to Jordan to pass over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, weary, yet pursuing.
5 And he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give morsels of bread to the people who follow me (for they are weary), so that I may follow after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.”
6 And the princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hands, so that we should give bread to your army?”
7 Gideon then said, “In that case, when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
8 And he went up from there to Penuel and spoke to them likewise. And the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
9 And he also said to the men of Penuel, “When I come back in peace, I will break down this tower.”
10 Now, Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor. And their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of all the armies of those of the East. For a hundred-twenty thousand men were killed who drew swords.
11 And Gideon went through those who dwelt in tabernacles on the eastern side of Nobah and Jogbehah and struck the camp. For the army was careless.
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he followed after them and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and routed the whole army.
13 So Gideon, the son of Joash, returned from battle while the Sun was high,
14 and took a servant of the men of Succoth and inquired of him. And he wrote down the princes of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.
15 And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, “Behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hands, so that we should give bread to your weary men?’”
16 Then he took the elders of the city and thorns of the wilderness and briers and tore the men of Succoth with them.
17 Also, he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What manner of men were they whom you slew at Tabor?” And they answered, “They were the same as you. One was like the children of a king.”
19 And he said, “They were my brethren, my mother’s children. As the LORD lives, if you had saved their lives, I would not kill you.”
20 Then he said to Jether, his firstborn son, “Up and kill them!” But the boy did not draw his sword. For he feared because he was still young.
21 Then, Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise and fall upon us! For as the man is, so is his strength!” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Reign over us, you and your son and your son’s son. For you have delivered us out of the hand of Midian.”
23 And Gideon said to them, “I will not reign over you. Nor shall my child reign over you. The LORD shall reign over you.”
24 Again, Gideon said to them, “I would ask a request of you: that you would give me the earrings from each man’s plunder (for they had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites).”
25 And they answered, “We will give them.” And they spread a garment and cast in the earrings from each man’s plunder.
26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he required was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold, besides collars and jewels and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were around the camels’ necks.
27 And Gideon made an ephod out of it and put it in Ophrah, his city. And all Israel went a whoring there after it (which was the destruction of Gideon and his House).
28 Thus was Midian brought low before the children of Israel, so that they no longer lifted up their heads. And the country was quiet for forty years during the days of Gideon.
29 Then Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went and dwelt in his own house.
30 And Gideon had seventy sons begotten from his body; for he had many wives.
31 And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
32 So Gideon, the son of Joash, died at a good age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash, his father, in Ophrah, of the father of the Abiezrites.
33 But when Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned away and went a whoring after Baal and made Baal-Berith their god.
34 And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, Who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side.
35 Nor did they show mercy on the House of Jerubbaal (Gideon), according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
5 Then it happened that as the people pressed upon Him to hear the Word of God, He stood by the lake of Gennesaret
2 and saw two ships stand by the lakeside. But the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
3 And He entered into one of the ships (which was Simon’s) and asked him to thrust off a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the ship.
4 Now when He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep. And let down your nets to make a catch.”
5 Then Simon answered, and said to Him, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at Your Word I will let down the net.”
6 And when they had done so, they enclosed a great multitude of fish, so that their net broke.
7 And they beckoned to their partners in the other ship to come and help them. Then they came and filled both the ships, so that they sank.
8 Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Lord, go from me. For I am a sinful man.”
9 For he was utterly astonished (and all who were with him) at the catch of fish which they took.
10 And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were companions of Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not fear. From now on you shall catch men.”
11 And when they had brought the ships to land, they left all and followed Him.
12 Now it happened that when He was in a certain city, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged Him, saying, “Lord, if You will, You can make me clean.”
13 So he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, “I will. Be clean.” And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
14 And He commanded him that he should tell no one. “But go and show yourself to the priest. And offer as Moses has commanded for your cleansing, for a witness to them.”
15 But His fame spread even more. And great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities by Him.
16 But He kept Himself apart in the wilderness and prayed.
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