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against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece;
let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
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And God did so
that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
CHAPTER 7
Then Jerubbaal, who
is
Gideon, and all the people that
were
with him, rose up early, and pitched
beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the
hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2
And the L
ORD
said unto Gideon, The people that
are
with thee
are
too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me,
saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people,
saying, Whosoever
is
fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And
there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4
And the
L
ORD
said unto Gideon, The people
are
yet
too
many; bring them down unto the water, and I will
try them for thee there: and it shall be,
that
of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the
same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same
shall not go.
5
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the L
ORD
said unto Gideon, Every
one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6
And the number of them that lapped,
putting
their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed
down upon their knees to drink water.
7
And the L
ORD
said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men
that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the
other
people
go every man unto his place.
8
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he
sent all
the rest of
Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the
host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9
And it came to pass the same night, that the L
ORD
said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the
host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
10
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy
servant down to the host:
11
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be
strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside
of the armed men that
were
in the host.
12
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children
of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels
were
without
number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13
And when Gideon was come, behold,
there
was
a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake
of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and
overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14
And his fellow answered and said, This
is
nothing else save
the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel:
for
into his hand hath God delivered Midian,
and all the host.
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