Judges 7:7–12

⁷And Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you ^awith the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his place.”

⁸So ¹the 300 men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And ²Gideon 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 it happened the same night that Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, ^afor I have given it into your hands.

¹⁰“But if you are afraid to go down, then both you and Purah your young man, go down to the camp,

¹¹and you will hear what they say; and ^aafterward your hands will be strengthened, that you may go down against the camp.” So he went with Purah his young man down to the ¹outskirts of the armed men that were in the camp.

¹²Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley ^aas numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, ^bas numerous as the sand on the seashore.