Verse 2
Judges 7:2
World English Bible, British Edition
2
The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for
me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved
me.’
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל גִּדְע֔וֹן רַ֗ב הָ/עָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתָּ֔/ךְ מִ/תִּתִּ֥/י אֶת מִדְיָ֖ן בְּ/יָדָ֑/ם פֶּן יִתְפָּאֵ֨ר עָלַ֤/י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר יָדִ֖/י הוֹשִׁ֥יעָה לִּֽ/י
English Translation
And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people that are with you are too many for me to deliver Midian into their hand, lest Israel boast against me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'"
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose
up early and encamped besi...
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2
The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for
me to give the Midianites int...
3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is
fearful and trembling, let him...
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4
The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring
them down to the water, and I will...
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5
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon,
“Everyone who laps of the w...
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6
The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was
three hundred men; but all th...
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7
The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who
lapped, and deliver the Midia...
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8
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and
he sent all the rest of the men of Is...
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9
That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp,
for I have delivered it into y...
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10
But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to
the camp.
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11
You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened
to go down into the camp....
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12
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the
east lay along in the valley like locu...
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13
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream
to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dre...
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14
His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of
Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Isra...
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15
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its
interpretation, that he worshipped. Th...
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16
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he
put into the hands of all of them trum...
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17
He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come
to the outermost part of the camp,...
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18
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets
also on every side of all...
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19
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost
part of the camp in the beginn...
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20
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held
the torches in their left hands...
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21
They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran;
and they shouted, and put them t...
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22
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword
against his fellow and agai...
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23
The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher,
and out of all Manasseh, and...
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24
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying,
“Come down against Midian...
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25
They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb
at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they k...
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