Judges 7:7-23

7The Lord said to Gideon, “I will deliver you 1with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his 2home.” 8So 3the 300 men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And 4Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

9Now the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, 5for I have given it into your hands. 10But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp, 11and you will hear what they say; and 6afterward your hands will be strengthened that you may go down against the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant down to the 7outposts of the army that was in the camp. 12Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley 8as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, 9as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 13When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I 10had a dream; 11a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it 12upside down so that the tent lay flat.” 14His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp 13into his hand.”

15When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hands.” 16He divided the 300 men into three 14companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers. 17He said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, 15do as I do. 18When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets all around the camp and say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’”

19So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands. 20When the three 16companies 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 cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” 21Each stood in his place around the camp; and 17all the 18army ran, crying out as they fled. 22When they blew 300 trumpets, the 19Lord set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole 20army; and the 21army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of 22Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 23The men of Israel were summoned from 23Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.