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Judges 7 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - And Jerobaal rose early, the same is Gedeon, and all the people with him, and encamped at the fountain of Arad; and the camp of Madiam was to the north of him, reaching from Gabaathamorai, in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - And the Lord said to Gedeon, The people with thee are many, so that I may not deliver Madiam into their hand, lest at any time Israel boast against me, saying, My hand has saved me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - And now speak in the ears of the people, saying, Who is afraid and fearful? let him turn and depart from mount Galaad: and there returned of the people twenty-two thousand, and ten thousand were left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - And the Lord said to Gedeon, The people is yet numerous; bring them down to the water, and I will purge them there for thee: and it shall come to pass that of whomsoever I shall say to thee, This one shall go with thee, even he shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I shall say to thee, This one shall not go with thee, even he shall not go with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - And he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gedeon, Whosoever shall lap of the water with his tongue as if a dog should lap, thou shalt set him apart, and also whosoever shall bow down upon his knees to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - And the number of those that lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bowed upon their knees to drink water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And the Lord said to Gedeon, I will save you by the three hundred men that lapped, and I will give Madiam into thy hand; and all the rest of the people shall go every one to his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - And they took the provision of the people in their hand, and their horns; and he sent away every man of Israel each to his tent, and he [fn]strengthened the three hundred; and the army of Madiam were beneath him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 - And it came to pass in that night that the Lord said to him, Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into thy hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - And if thou art afraid to go down, go down thou and thy servant Phara into the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - And thou shalt hear what they shall say, and afterwards thy hands shall be strong, and thou shalt go down into the camp: and he went down and Phara his servant to the extremity of the companies of fifty, which were in the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And Madiam and Amalec and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - And Gedeon came, and behold a man was relating to his neighbour a dream, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Madiam, and it came as far as a tent, and smote it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his neighbour answered and said, This is none other than the sword of Gedeon, son of Joas, a man of Israel: God has delivered Madiam and all the host into his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - And it came to pass when Gedeon heard the account of the dream and the interpretation of it, that he worshipped the Lord, and returned to the camp of Israel, and said, Rise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Madiam into our hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:16 - And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the [fn]hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - and he said to them, Ye shall look [fn]at me, and so shall ye do; and behold, I will go into the [fn]beginning of the host, and it shall come to pass that as I do, so shall ye do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - And I will sound with the horn, and all ye with me shall sound with the horn round about the whole camp, and ye shall say, For the Lord and Gedeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - And Gedeon and the hundred men that were with him came to the extremity of the army in the beginning of the middle watch; and they completely roused the guards, and sounded with the horns, and they [fn]broke the pitchers that were in their hands,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - and the three companies sounded with the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands their horns to sound with; and they cried out, A sword for the Lord and for Gedeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - And every man stood in his place round about the host; and all the host ran, and sounded an alarm, and fled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And they sounded with the three hundred horns; and the Lord set every man's sword in all the host against his neighbour.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - And the host fled as far as Bethseed Tagaragatha Abel-meula to Tabath; and the men of Israel from Nephthali, and from Aser, and from all Manasse, came to help, and followed after Madiam.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - And Gedeon sent messengers [fn]into all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down to meet Madiam, and take to yourselves the water as far as Bæthera and Jordan: and every man of Ephraim cried out, and they took the water before hand unto Bæthera and Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they took the princes of Madiam, even Oreb and Zeb; and they slew Oreb in Sur Oreb, and they slew Zeb in Jakephzeph; and they pursued Madiam, and brought the [fn]heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon from beyond Jordan.
BES Footnotes
Or, encouraged.
Gr. hand.
Gr. from. q. d. at the actions proceeding from me.
Or, corner. See Acts 10:11.
Gr. shook off.
Gr. in.
Gr. head.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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