came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning
of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch:
and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers
that were in their hands.
007:020 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers,
and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets
in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried,
The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon.
007:021 They stood every man in his place round about the camp;
and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
007:022 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every
man's sword against his fellow, and against all the army;
and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah,
as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
007:023 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out
of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
007:024 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country
of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before
them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took
the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
007:025 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb;
and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they
killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian:
and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon
beyond the Jordan.
008:001 The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you
didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did
chide with him sharply.
008:002 He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you?
Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than
the vintage of Abiezer?
008:003 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb
and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you?
Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
008:004 Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three
hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
008:005 He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread
to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am
pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
008:006 The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna
now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
008:007 Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna
into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns
of the wilderness and with briers.
008:008 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner;
and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of
Succoth had answered.
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