Judges 7:7-23

7And the Lord said to Gideon, “I will save you 1with 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 2home.” 8So 3the three hundred men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And 4Gideon 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, 5for I have handed it over to you. 10But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp, 11so that you will hear what they say; and 6afterward 7you will have the courage to go down against the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to the 8outposts of the army that was in the camp. 12Now the Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the 9people of the east were lying in the valley 10as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, 11as 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 12had a dream; 13a 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 14upside down so that the tent collapsed.” 14And his friend replied, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has 15handed over to him Midian and all the camp.”

15When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. Then he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has handed over to you the camp of Midian!” 16And he divided the three hundred men into three 16units, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers. 17Then he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, 17do as I do. 18When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets around the entire 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 night 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 18units 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 shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” 21And each stood in his place around the camp; and 19all the 20army ran, crying out as they fled. 22And when they blew the three hundred trumpets, the 21Lord set the sword of one against another even throughout the entire 22army; and the 23army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of 24Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 23And the men of Israel were summoned from 25Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.