The Koine Bible

And Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, rose early, and all the people with him, and they camped by the spring of Arad, and the camp of Midian was to him from the north, from Gabaath Amoor, in the valley

And the Lord said to Gideon, The people with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel boast against me, saying, My hand has saved me.

And now speak, please, in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and fainthearted, let him turn back and depart from Mount Gilead. And twenty-two thousand returned from the people, and ten thousand were left.

And the Lord said to Gideon, The people are still many; bring them down to the water, and I will purge him for you there. And it shall be that whomever I may say to you, This one shall go with you, he shall go with you; and everyone whom I may say to you, This one shall not go with you, he shall not go with you.

And he brought the people down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water as a dog laps, you shall set him apart by himself, and everyone who bows down on his knees to drink

And the number of those lapping with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men, and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water.

And the Lord said to Gideon, With the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and I will give Midian into your hand; and all the people shall go, each man to his place.

And they took the provisions of the people in their hand and their trumpets, and every man of Israel he sent away, each man to his tent, and he kept the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

And it happened in that night, and the Lord said to him, Rise up, go down into the camp, for I have given it into your hand.

And if you are afraid to go down, go down you and Phara your young man to the camp

and you shall hear what they will speak, and after this your hands shall be strengthened, and you shall go down into the camp. And he went down, he and Phara his young man, to the beginning of the fifty who were in the camp

And Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley like locusts in multitude, and to their camels there was no number, but they were like the sand that is on the seashore in multitude.

And Gideon came, and behold, a man was recounting to his neighbor a dream, and he said, A dream, behold, I dreamed: and behold, a cake of barley bread was turning in the camp of Midian, and it came as far as the tent and struck it, and it fell, and it turned it upside down, and the tent fell.

And his neighbor answered and said, This is nothing but the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.

And it happened, when Gideon heard the interpretation of the dream and its explanation, that he worshiped the Lord, and he returned to the camp of Israel and said, Rise up, for the Lord has given the camp of Midian into our hand.

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave horn trumpets into the hand of all and empty jars and torches in the jars

And he said to them, From me you shall see, and thus you shall do; and behold, I am going into the beginning of the camp, and it shall be that as I do, so you shall do.

and I will sound the horn, I myself and all with me; and you shall sound with the horns all around the whole camp, and you shall say, For the Lord and for Gideon

And Gideon and the hundred men who were with him entered at the beginning of the camp, at the beginning of the middle watch, and they, rousing, roused the ones keeping watch; and they blew the horns and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

And the three companies blew the trumpets with the horn trumpets, and they broke the jars, and they held the torches in their left hands and in their right hands the horn trumpets for blowing, and they cried out, A sword for the Lord and for Gideon.

And each man stood in his place around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they sounded the signal, and they fled.

And they blew the trumpets with the three hundred ram’s horns, and the Lord set the sword of each man against his neighbor in all the camp, and the camp fled as far as Bethseeddath Garagatha, as far as the edge of Abomeoula, toward Tabbath.

And the man of Israel cried out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.

And Gideon sent messengers into all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Go down to meet Midian and seize for yourselves the water as far as Beth-harah and the Jordan. And every man of Ephraim shouted, and they took beforehand the water as far as Beth-harah and the Jordan.

And they captured the princes of Midian, and Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb in Sur and Zeeb they killed in Iakephzeph, and they pursued Midian, and the head of Oreb and Zeeb they brought to Gideon from beyond the Jordan