Judges 7:5   (Read all of Judges 7)

So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, "Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink."

Judges 7:7   (Read all of Judges 7)

The Lord said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home."

Judges 7:8   (Read all of Judges 7)

So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

Judges 7:9   (Read all of Judges 7)

During that night the Lord said to Gideon, "Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands.

Judges 7:10   (Read all of Judges 7)

If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah

Judges 7:11   (Read all of Judges 7)

and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp." So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp.

Judges 7:12   (Read all of Judges 7)

The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.

Judges 7:13   (Read all of Judges 7)

Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. "I had a dream," he was saying. "A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed."

Judges 7:14   (Read all of Judges 7)

His friend responded, "This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands."

Judges 7:18   (Read all of Judges 7)

When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, 'For the Lord and for Gideon.' "

Judges 7:20   (Read all of Judges 7)

The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!"

Judges 7:22   (Read all of Judges 7)

When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 7:24   (Read all of Judges 7)

Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah." So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.

Judges 8:3   (Read all of Judges 8)

God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?" At this, their resentment against him subsided.

Judges 8:5   (Read all of Judges 8)

He said to the men of Sukkoth, "Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."

Judges 8:6   (Read all of Judges 8)

But the officials of Sukkoth said, "Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?"

Judges 8:8   (Read all of Judges 8)

From there he went up to Peniel and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had.

Judges 8:9   (Read all of Judges 8)

So he said to the men of Peniel, "When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower."

Judges 8:10   (Read all of Judges 8)

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.

Judges 8:13   (Read all of Judges 8)

Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.

Judges 8:14   (Read all of Judges 8)

He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth, the elders of the town.

Judges 8:15   (Read all of Judges 8)

Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, 'Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?' "

Judges 8:16   (Read all of Judges 8)

He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.

Judges 8:19   (Read all of Judges 8)

Gideon replied, "Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the Lord lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you."