1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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 vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.
3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. Twenty-two thousand of the people returned; and ten thousand remained.
4 The Lord said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This one shall go with you, that one shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This one shall not go with you, that one shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people to the water: and the Lord said to Gideon, Everyone who laps up the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.
6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 The Lord said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place.
8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 The same night the Lord said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp:
11 and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the sea shore for multitude.
13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.
14 His fellow answered, This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17 He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
21 Every man stood in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take the waters before them, as far as Beth Barah, to the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, to the Jordan.
25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.