1 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 LORD 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 LORD 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 LORD 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 LORD 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 LORD 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.
15 ¶ And it was so , when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that , as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
19 ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath.
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
24 ¶ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. 25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
1 igitur Hierobbaal qui est et Gedeon de nocte
consurgens
et omnis populus cum eo
venit ad fontem qui vocatur Arad
erant autem castra Madian in valle
ad septentrionalem plagam collis Excelsi
2 dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon
multus tecum est populus nec tradetur Madian in manus eius
ne glorietur contra me Israhel et dicat meis viribus liberatus sum
3 loquere ad populum et cunctis audientibus praedica
qui formidolosus et timidus est revertatur
recesseruntque de monte Galaad
et reversa sunt ex populo viginti duo milia virorum
et tantum decem milia remanserunt
4 dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon adhuc populus multus est
duc eos ad aquas et ibi probabo illos
et de quo dixero tibi ut tecum vadat ipse pergat
quem ire prohibuero revertatur
5 cumque descendisset populus ad aquas dixit Dominus ad Gedeon
qui lingua lambuerint aquas sicut solent canes lambere
separabis eos seorsum
qui autem curvatis genibus biberint in altera parte erunt
6 fuit itaque numerus eorum qui manu ad os proiciente aquas
lambuerant trecenti viri
omnis autem reliqua multitudo flexo poplite biberat
7 et ait Dominus ad Gedeon
in trecentis viris qui lambuerunt aquas liberabo vos
et tradam Madian in manu tua
omnis autem reliqua multitudo revertatur in locum suum
8 sumptis itaque pro numero cibariis et tubis
omnem reliquam multitudinem abire praecepit ad tabernacula sua
et ipse cum trecentis viris se certamini dedit
castra autem Madian erant subter in valle
9 eadem nocte dixit Dominus ad eum
surge et descende in castra quia tradidi eos in manu tua
10 sin autem solus ire formidas descendat tecum Phara puer tuus
11 et cum audieris quid loquantur tunc confortabuntur manus tuae
et securior ad hostium castra descendes
descendit ergo ipse et Phara puer eius in partem castrorum
ubi erant armatorum vigiliae
12 Madian autem et Amalech et omnes orientales populi
fusi iacebant in valle ut lucustarum multitudo
cameli quoque innumerabiles erant
sicut harena quae iacet in litoribus maris
13 cumque venisset Gedeon narrabat aliquis somnium proximo suo
et in hunc modum referebat quod viderat
vidi somnium et videbatur mihi quasi subcinericius panis ex hordeo
volvi et in Madian castra descendere
cumque pervenisset ad tabernaculum
percussit illud atque subvertit et terrae funditus coaequavit
14 respondit is cui loquebatur
non est hoc aliud nisi gladius Gedeonis filii Ioas viri
israhelitae
tradidit Deus in manu eius Madian et omnia castra eius
15 cumque audisset Gedeon somnium et interpretationem eius adoravit
et reversus ad castra Israhel ait
surgite tradidit enim Dominus in manus nostras castra Madian
16 divisitque trecentos viros in tres partes
et dedit tubas in manibus eorum
lagoenasque vacuas ac lampadas in medio lagoenarum
17 et dixit ad eos quod me facere videritis hoc facite
ingrediar partem castrorum et quod fecero sectamini
18 quando personaverit tuba in manu mea
vos quoque per castrorum circuitum clangite
et conclamate Domino et Gedeoni
19 ingressusque est Gedeon et trecenti viri qui erant cum eo
in parte castrorum incipientibus vigiliis noctis mediae
et custodibus suscitatis coeperunt bucinis clangere
et conplodere inter se lagoenas
20 cumque per gyrum castrorum in tribus personarent locis
et hydrias confregissent
tenuerunt sinistris manibus lampadas et dextris sonantes tubas
clamaveruntque gladius Domini et Gedeonis
21 stantes singuli in loco suo per circuitum castrorum hostilium
omnia itaque castra turbata sunt
et vociferantes ululantesque fugerunt
22 et nihilominus insistebant trecenti viri bucinis personantes
inmisitque Dominus gladium in omnibus castris
et mutua se caede truncabant
23 fugientes usque Bethseta et crepidinem Abelmeula in Tebbath
conclamantes autem viri Israhel de Nepthali et Aser et omni Manasse
persequebantur Madian
24 misitque Gedeon nuntios in omnem montem Ephraim dicens
descendite in occursum Madian
et occupate aquas usque Bethbera atque Iordanem
clamavitque omnis Ephraim
et praeoccupavit aquas atque Iordanem usque Bethbera
25 adprehensosque duos viros Madian Oreb et Zeb interfecit
Oreb in petra Oreb Zeb vero in torculari Zeb
et persecuti sunt Madian
capita Oreb et Zeb portantes ad Gedeon trans fluenta Iordanis