Judges 7 NKJV

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Then it will be, <i>that</i> of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So he brought the people down to the water. And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the number of those who lapped, <i>putting</i> their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the <i>other</i> people go, every man to his <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>place.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away all <i>the rest of</i> Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>It happened on the same night that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you shall hear what they say; and afterward <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who <i>were</i> in the camp. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels <i>were</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: <i>To my</i> surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then his companion answered and said, “This <i>is</i> nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then he divided the three hundred men <i>into</i> three companies, and he put a trumpet into every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When I blow the trumpet, I and all who <i>are</i> with me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, ‘<i>The sword of</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> and of Gideon!’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So Gideon and the hundred men who <i>were</i> with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that <i>were</i> in their hands. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> and of Gideon!” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And every man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the men of Israel gathered together from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then Gideon sent messengers throughout all the mountains of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan.” Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and seized the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-6702a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 7:7">Judges 7:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>home</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6706b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 7:11">Judges 7:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>you shall be encouraged</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6707c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 7:12">Judges 7:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>innumerable</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6717d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 7:22">Judges 7:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Beth Shittah</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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