Judges 7:1-9

1Then 1Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him got up early, and camped beside 2the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of 3them by the hill of 4Moreh in the valley.

2And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to hand Midian over to them, 5otherwise Israel would 6become boastful, saying, ‘My own 7power has saved me.’ 3Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘8Whoever is afraid and worried, is to return and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand from the people returned, but ten thousand remained.

49Then the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. So it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” 5So he brought the people down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall put everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps 10in one group, and everyone who kneels down to drink in another.” 6Now the number of those who lapped, 11putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people kneeled down to drink water. 7And the Lord said to Gideon, “I will save you 12with the three hundred men who lapped, and will hand the Midianites over to you; so have all the other people go, each man to his 13home.” 8So 14the three hundred men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And 15Gideon dismissed all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

9Now on the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, 16for I have handed it over to you.